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Clos du Val, a Napa winery set up by Frenchman Bernard Portet in 1972 and best known for its Cabernet Sauvignon, hired a new executive team last year to reposition its brand further upmarket. It will soon sell its top Cabernet at $62 a bottle, up from $55. Several of its other wines will also have price increases. The wine labels will be redesigned, but the wine inside will remain the same. "By not raising our prices in the 1990s, we fell behind in positioning and recognition," says David Campbell...
...prosecutor Michel Marotte in Tahiti. The 55-ft. boat Hakuna Matata embarked in late May from Auckland, New Zealand, bound for Tahiti and Hawaii. Dele was joined onboard by his girlfriend Serena Karlan, 30, who was a former New York City real estate agent, and Bertrand Saldo, 32, a Frenchman and professional yacht captain. Dabord, a computer programmer from California, turned up uninvited. In emails to her parents and friends, Karlan "didn't sound all that excited about him being there," says her best friend, Stacey Steele...
...Premier League. Under manager Arsène Wenger, Arsenal has become a team combining technique, speed and flair that not only plays dazzling football but wins too. Having won the League Championship and Football Association Cup last season, they are now on a run of 27 unbeaten league games. Frenchman Wenger has an enviable ability to spot talent, get it cheaply and nurture it. His buys of French players like Thierry Henry, Sylvain Wiltord and Robert Pires, Swedish star Freddie Ljungberg and Brazilians Edu and Gilberto Silva have fashioned a side that has supplanted Manchester United as the most exciting...
Those tip-trading sessions proved useful on Dec. 22, when the two flight attendants boarded Flight 63 from Paris to Miami. Although both live in Florida, each holds French citizenship, speaks French fluently (Jones spent part of her childhood in Antibes, Peruvian-born Moutardier is married to a Frenchman) and flew the Paris route often. Flight 63 was jammed with 185 passengers that pre-Christmas Saturday morning. Baggage problems delayed takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport an hour, but everything seemed routine once the plane was airborne. Then a passenger aroused the flight attendants' curiosity. He was a "huge...
...Irina Chernieva--a former Olympic figure skater who strenuously promoted Marina's career--were startling if not downright incriminating. In one, the Uzbek promised, "We are going to make your daughter an Olympic champion. Even if she falls, we will make sure she is No. 1." In another, a Frenchman called Chevalier (presumably a cohort) is heard assuring the Uzbek, "Even if the Canadians are 10 times better, the French with their vote have given them [the Russians] first place. You understand...