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...languages are not his own. In denying Mesbah the justice of parole, the Toulouse magistrate sought to prevent the greater injustice of deportation. "In a situation as surreal as this, Aïssa's continued detention averts the worst while providing some margin for hope," says Mesbah's lawyer, François Vintrou. "The judge has essentially told the Interior Ministry [which issued the double peine expulsion order], 'I can't do what's right until you promise not to do what's wrong.'" While the expulsion of resident aliens who are deemed threats to public order is practiced...
...museum. "This whole thing got out of hand," he says. "This is my mother's resting place, not Graceland." The sons also objected to the sale of "Audrey Hepburn" chocolates, lavender from her garden, pots of homemade jam from local fruit and paintings of the house. Françoise Meier, whose daughter went to the village elementary school with Ferrer, says the charges of commercialization "are ridiculous. There's nothing trashy about what we sell at the museum. And nobody profits from tourism. We have no shops, and the only restaurant is in a place no tourist would find." Though...
...seen foiled in Europe," Jacquard notes. "Even big operations like Sept. 11 only cost between $250,000 and $500,000. The keys to their success are organization and secrecy, not money." The Bensaïd trial may help investigators disrupt the al-Qaeda organization in Europe. But Françoise Rudetski - president of victims' defense association sos-Attentats, one of the civil parties in the Bensaïd case - stresses that everything experts and investigators may say about unfolding plots is of little import if they can't punish terrorists who have already acted. "Bensaïd's behavior inflicts...
...they charge, are so reluctant to miss a potential best-seller that increasing numbers of mediocre writers make it into print, while true talents get lost in the shuffle. Literature professor and essayist Pierre Jourde - whose scathing treatise, Literature Without Guts, won an award from the Académie Française in June - argues that the overproduction is fueled by a cult of personality and by kid-gloved critics who are often shoddy novelists themselves and thus disinclined to attack falling standards. Other authors, he charges, divert attention from their otherwise unremarkable texts with posturing or controversy. "There...
Following Jospin's loss and immediate retirement from politics, Socialist Party leader François Hollande has led the search for lessons amid the ruins of the election. During their summer congress in La Rochelle, Socialist leaders issued a mea culpa, resisting efforts by some officials to lay all the blame on Jospin. Party members gave a sour reception to former cabinet member Marie-Noëlle Lienemann, whose recent book My Own Inventory not only found Jospin's government too market-smitten and his election campaign muddled, but also denigrated him as "not quite having what it takes...