Word: figaro
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...similar suit by Professor of Romance and Comparative Literatures Susan R. Suleiman against Le Figaro magazine was dismissed because a bailiff failed to deliver Suleiman's court papers before the filing deadline...
...professors sued the magazine, a weekly supplement of France's major Le Figaro newspaper, for libel and defamation after an article in April 1994 attacked their academic credentials and the French section of Harvard's Romance Languages and Literatures Department...
Colleagues at Harvard and around the U.S.generally support the decision of the twoprofessors to sue Le Figaro magazine...
Jardine says the lawyer for Le Figaro did not have much to say. Suleiman agrees, saying"He presented a very weak argument saying simplythat the journalist had published two books andthat Alice Jardine and I were 'feminist.' That isnot much of an argument...
Many legal experts have predicted that Jardineand Suleiman will win the case, Jardine says. Ifthey do, Le Figaro will have to publish astatement in newspapers of Jardine and Suleiman'schoosing that it was found guilty of libel anddefamation, Jardine says...