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...classes, and even send teenage miscreants to military boot camp. Socialist voters, mindful of the youthful rampages last fall in the poor outlying housing projects and this spring at universities, approve of her tough-love approach by a resounding 69%, according to a poll commissioned by the newspaper Le Figaro...
...film. Michel Ciment, the doyen of Positif magazine, and a member of a jury of critics convened by the daily Cannes edition of Screen International, gave Marie Antoinette four palms, the highest rating. The critic for Les Echoes called it "a superb film," and the one for Le Figaro said it was "prettily filmed." The French website Romandie.com pegged the Coppola movie, along with Pedro Almodôvar's Volver and Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel, as one of the top three contenders for the Palme...
...craving for law and order within the French mainstream, which has recoiled at the rioters' defiance of the authorities. The rioters torched more than 7,500 cars in some 300 cities and towns throughout France and caused an estimated $235 million in damage. A poll in the newspaper Le Figaro published last week showed that 56% of the public supported Sarkozy's handling of the crisis. "Sarkozy's language is understood perfectly well by the modest folk of this country," says Nadine Morano, a member of Sarkozy's Union for a Popular Movement who grew up in the tough...
...using national staff was an important part of the strategy. "I didn't want Americans or English people coming to do the deals in France, Germany and Spain. I wanted French, German and Spaniards." One of Carlyle's first European transactions involved a major French national daily newspaper, Le Figaro--a deal that could have been a political minefield, given the importance of the press. But, says Millet, "they did the deal with us because they had the impression they were dealing with French people...
...archrival, Anatoli Karpov, 34. The youngest chess champion in history demanded the ouster of World Chess Federation President Florencio Campomanes, who is up for re-election in 1986 and whom Kasparov accuses of favoring Karpov. The mandatory title defense "is perfectly illegal," said Kasparov in an interview in Le Figaro, "and I don't have to submit to Campomanes' dictatorship." Since capturing the world championship from Karpov in November, the feisty, flamboyant Kasparov has taken some time off to enjoy the beaches near his hometown of Baku in Azerbaijan. But last week's challenge to Campomanes, announced in Amsterdam, where...