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...first to come to grief over his Anglo-Saxon ambitions was Jean-Marie Messier, a Frenchman equally at home in New York as in Paris. Messier was forced out as chief executive of entertainment giant Vivendi Universal last month because he ran up huge debts in a spree of expensive media acquisitions, among other sins...
...Armstrong, fellow Postie Roberto Heras and once's Beloki charge past with about 3 km remaining. With 200 meters to go, Armstrong pulled away to win the stage and the yellow jersey, which he never relinquished. The next day Armstrong again bolted past Jalabert, giving him what the Frenchman would recall as a "sad look." Passing the popular Jalabert was "a shame," Armstrong said later. "He deserves...
...Moussaoui's "martyrdom" mission went ahead without him, largely as a result of his own sloppiness. The hapless 34-year-old Frenchman had been arrested by the FBI on immigration charges after carelessly arousing suspicion at a Minnesota flight school. Even in those infinitely more innocent days, a man impatient to learn to operate a Boeing 767 in midair but singularly uninterested in the art of takeoff and landing was not going to pass unnoticed. His more disciplined comrades were careful to avoid triggering alarms, diligently mastering the superfluous skills of takeoff and landing during their time at American flight...
...Dabadie, 27, has the soul of a mime. Instead of merely interpreting Troussier's pearls of wisdom, he mimics the boss's every move. "It's about being Philippe Troussier," says Dabadie. "The players don't look at him when he's talking, they look at me." The theatrical Frenchman admits he sometimes edits Troussier's monologues so the coach doesn't "appear as if he is uneducated. Like the other day, he started talking about the players being like Mount Fuji, a volcano about to erupt or something ... the metaphor made no sense. So I just left that part...
...book The Horrifying Fraud, Frenchman Thierry Meyssan puts forth the ridiculous theory that U.S. government officials were behind the Sept. 11 attacks as an excuse to launch a war on Afghanistan and Iraq [LETTER FROM FRANCE, May 20]. This is preposterous! Meyssan should show some respect for America. He should know that were it not for the U.S. government and our military, all French people, including him, might be speaking German today! EDMOND ROBERT MANSOOR Thousand Oaks, Calif...