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PARIS: They partied all night in St. Denis, suburban home of the Stade de France. Anywhere between 800,000 and 1.5 million of them partied all night on the Champs-Elysées. Even in far-flung London, ex-pats danced in the fountains of Trafalgar Square till dawn. France...
PARIS: As one embarassing conflict ended, so another began. Air France pilots reached a strike-breaking deal early Wednesday with just hours left on the clock before the World Cup began -- but any feelings of relief in the French capital were dampened by clashes between drunken fans and overzealous police...
It seemed at first to be just another routine visit to the Elysée Palace. But within 30 minutes of Premier Pierre Mauroy's arrival for his weekly meeting with President François Mitterrand, the Elysée's chief of staff emerged onto the steps...
Under the French system, however, the political heat of unpopular decisions falls largely on the Premier; hence Fabius remained the golden boy of the Socialist team. Although political analysts knew that Mauroy's days were numbered, most assumed that he would remain in place through the fall to act...
Pei and his designers tried transparent cubes, domes and pyramids; they finally settled on the pyramid form because it would be distinctive and yet would not clash with the classic lines of the old building. The proportions of the pyramid (modeled after the famous Egyptian pyramid at Giza) would make...