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...public outrage as have the rioters. French President Jacques Chirac, who was re-elected in 2002 in part on his promise to address the problem of "insecurity," especially in the banlieues, or suburbs, remained astoundingly absent as Paris burned. The weekly Nouvel Observateur called him the "phantom of the Elys??e." The riots had raged for more than a week before he made a brief, uninspiring call for calm on Nov. 6, then spoke of the troubles again in a press conference on Nov. 10. Chirac's aides insisted that it was he who encouraged his protg, Prime Minister...
...former Armstrong lieutenants, desperate to escape his mountainous shadow, could soon reach the Champs Elys??es podium. Floyd Landis, 29, who was never even allowed to race a bike as a kid, stood sixth overall through 14 stages (out of 21) in this year's Tour. He grew up without a television or radio in a Mennonite household in Pennsylvania, and he needed permission from a pastor to wear racing tights in public. Landis still won't conform. After riding shotgun for Armstrong on the U.S. Postal team for the past three Tours, he jumped to the Swiss Phonack squad...
...have the French voting “no” on May 29, and Chirac is getting nervous. Last Thursday he even pleaded for a “yes” vote in a prime-time televised conversation with 80 young voters at the Palais de l’Elys??e, France’s White House, going so far as to admit that he felt pained by what he called their age group’s fear of the future...
...been a loud and firm no, but it is a no that derives from history, not from meanness of spirit. The nightmare of World War II is simply not to be smiled away, first because the war touched everywhere, not just the Western Front, but Piccadilly and the Champs Elys??es and Stalingrad. Second, because it was both a war and a crime--6 million Jews and perhaps 4.5 million others exterminated. What Reagan may not understand is that cemeteries house visible ghosts. At Bitburg, the SS troops still rant and hunt. At Bergen-Belsen the children still weep...
...prototypes show the currently drab North Harvard Street converted into a boulevard modeled on the Champs-Elys??es that would run into a much-discussed “Allston Square”—currently the site of two gas stations and a convenience store, but one day, many hope, a lively rival to Harvard Square...