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Had French business titan Jean-Marie Messier been a footballer, he might not be suffering disgrace and joblessness today. Last month, after France's World Cup humiliation, President Jacques Chirac advised disgruntled fans against turning on their beloved Bleus - warning "we mustn't burn today what we considered beautiful yesterday...
If his father?s election closed one door, it opened another. Despite his meager qualifications - he only finished a few years of university and had worked as a journalist for about nine years - Jean-Christophe in 1986 was named chief presidential adviser on African affairs. He soon gained a reputation...
Reunion island, a cone of volcanic rock that rises out of the Indian Ocean some 750 km east of Madagascar, is over 9,500 km away from Paris but - in theory, at least - is just as French as the Champs Elysées or the Côte d'Azur...
The two men are as different as Laurel and Hardy. Conservative Philippe Séguin, 57, is corpulent and earthy, with a resonant bass voice and an addiction to unfiltered Gitanes. Socialist Bertrand Delanoë, 50, an avowed homosexual, is soft-spoken and ascetic-looking with a gift for irony...
Well, he's done it. With a gleam in his eye and a champagne flute in his hand, Lance Armstrong pedaled to his second consecutive victory in the Tour de France Sunday, coasting down the Champs- Elysées like he hadn't just completed the most grueling sporting event...