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...latest job will require all the business acumen and musical sense the 55-year-old Frenchman can muster. Since October he?s been chairman and CEO of recorded music at EMI, a venerable British label with a roster that includes the Beatles, Frank Sinatra and Radiohead. Despite those assets, the company?s market value of $3.5 billion is about 40% lower than a year ago. It recorded a net loss of $76.9 million in the first half ending Sept. 30 on sales of $1.5 billion, down nearly 7% from the previous year...
...guiding national teams, professional clubs - and occasionally, as in Troussier's case, improving the entire structure of a country's soccer system. Troussier's three-year drive to recast the Japan Football Association a la français has already begun to bear fruit: under the 46-year-old Frenchman's guidance, perennial under-achiever Japan has compiled a respectable record of 18 wins, 11 draws and 10 losses...
...promptly turned the London club into a veritable colony of expat French stars. Within two years, he had walked off with both the English Premiership title and the Football Association Cup. His bid to another F.A. cup was thwarted last year by Liverpool, under the coaching of another Frenchman, Gérard Houllier. An architect of the French national training system, Houllier revamped and restructured a rusty Liverpool organization to win a rash of national and international titles last year. This year, the English Premier League got its third French manager: Jean Tigana, of the London club Fulham...
...Sloops to Conquer Though Frenchman Michel Desjoyeaux won the solo Vend?e Globe Round the World yacht race, Britain's tiny (1.57 m tall) Ellen MacArthur earned the loudest cheers. Her gutsy 94-day voyage drew a crowd of 200,000 to the Sables d'Olonne finish line in France to hail the youngest - she's 24 - and the quickest woman ever to complete the race...
...peacekeepers are called. The blue helmet closest to the scene, an earnest Frenchman (Georges Siatidis), wants to do something and disobeys orders and moves in. His superior (Simon Callow) prefers to play chess and dally with his mistress at headquarters. Meanwhile, a TV journalist (Katrin Cartlidge) hustles out to the trench and starts broadcasting live reports to the world about the anguish she finds there. Naturally, many of her competitors join...