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...Losers ALAN GREENSPAN The god of the greenback cuts interest rates, but the U.S. stock market faints anyway. What do they want? Free loans from Japan? JOSE BOVE McSledgehammer? The anti-globalization Frenchman loses his appeal against a three-month jail sentence for wrecking a McDonald's RICHARD LI After eight years in the limelight, the telecom wunderkind admits he never graduated from Stanford. Is he really Li Ka-shing...
...Even for Europe's new class of individualists, money isn't everything. The Frenchman Guillaume Burucoa, for instance, makes six figures a year as a corporate vice president at J.P. Morgan in London, but his dream is to become a "remote interior designer" and open a seaside restaurant. "If I can travel and pay the bills, I'm happy. I don't need to pile up millions." Easy, perhaps, for an investment banker to say. But unlike their American counterparts, few young adults in Europe spend waking hours monitoring the size of their stock portfolios. Instead, they are more concerned...
...course modern Hawaiian fare is not all pit-roasted pork and pounded taro, and there's no better place to dip into Honolulu's rich culinary melting pot than the cozy, contemporary dining room at Chef Mavro, tel: (808) 944-4714. George Mavrothalassitis, a charming Frenchman of Greek ancestry, made his name in the islands as executive chef of La Mer at the venerable Halekulani on Waikiki Beach, and later at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui. In 1998, Mavrothalassitis launched his signature restaurant a few minutes away from Waikiki, serving a meticulous marriage of local seafood and produce with...
...some athleticism of his own less than a minute later when he penetrated into the lane and passed up an easy layup in order to try for the dunk. Merchant could not complete the scaled-down version of the dunk that Vince Carter pulled off over a seven-foot Frenchman in the 2000 Olympic games, but he did draw the foul and provide the crowd and his teammates with some entertainment...
...idea of a "President's palace" quite naturally captured the expansive mind of transplanted Frenchman Pierre L'Enfant, who had grown to manhood at Versailles, the most magnificent monument to power and wealth--and self-indulgence--in Europe. In the fall of 1791, the new Federal City designed with his regal touch would be named Washington...