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...This week, some 10,000 soldiers from more than 20 countries - many of them in "new Europe," that loose amalgam of young, hungry, former Soviet-bloc states planning to join the E.U., and those in the West who are uncomfortable with the Gaullist tilt of the Franco-German axis - will be fully mustered in Iraq under the command of Polish General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz to help the Yanks and Brits shoulder what looks like a long and hazardous occupation. Serving alongside 2,300 Polish soldiers will be 1,600 soldiers from Ukraine, 1,300 from Spain, 470 from Bulgaria, 300 from...
...crowd that Arnold has stayed with for a while are old bodybuilding friends, a faithful circle that includes Franco Columbu, the Sancho Panza of Schwarzenegger's early days, who says Arnold is running for Governor to give something back to the country that has been so good to him. "He wants to do a big, beneficial thing, more than a movie--like straightening out this problem in California." Schwarzenegger also keeps up with Joe Weider, the onetime head of the International Federation of BodyBuilders who brought the 21-year old Austrian to the U.S. in 1968 when Schwarzenegger was already...
...swankest show in the West End is "Absolutely (Perhaps)," Martin Sherman's adaptation of the Pirandello play usually known in English as "Right You Are (If You Think You Are)." Director Franco Zeffirelli, still sparking glamorous ideas at 80, also designed the production: instead of walls, he has grids of rectangular jigsaw pieces flanked by walled mirrors. The set handsomely visualizes the play's core: a puzzle demanding reflection. On either side of the set are two rows of seats for members of the audience - our surrogates in considering the scandal that unfolds, silent (for the most part) judges...
...determine whether additional measures should be taken to reassure the American riders. "I am convinced that it will be the same as last year," Leblanc predicted. "There'll be no particular reason to smother Mr. Armstrong with protection." During last year's Tour, observers detected a warming trend in Franco-Lancian relations. Armstrong conducted more interviews in French, hired less-menacing bodyguards and signed plenty of autographs. Aside from the group of drunks who yelled "Dopé!" during his ascent of Mount Ventoux in Stage 14, things went well between him and the French public. The relationship should be even...
...make sure this popular boycott doesn't become a durable sentiment." So Guigal got on the tgv to Paris last week to meet with representatives from all of France's wine-growing regions, to talk about what can be done to turn the page on this nasty chapter in Franco-American relations. Louis-Fabrice Latour, whose family has exported Burgundy to America since the U.S. Civil War, shared his concerns. "Sales to the States fell between 20% and 30% in March," he says. "It's not just the boycott; we know the dollar's low and people have been spending...