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...most fervent pursuers had proclaimed his case the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs, but the historical parallel may in fact be closer to the Dreyfus case. Like the turn-of-the-century Jewish Frenchman falsely accused of treason in a blaze of anti-Semitism and finally vindicated after a spell in prison, the Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist is set to go free Monday after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Unlike Dreyfus, of course, Wen Ho Lee isn't entirely innocent, but the government has been forced to concede that what he's guilty of is simply the negligent...
...historian Leopold von Ranke remarked of the Frenchman Michelet: "He wrote history in a style in which the truth could not be told." Political conventions are conducted in a style in which the truth cannot be told. The Democrats have spent the week citing the falsities of the Republicans in Philadelphia (the phony diversity, for example, all those conservatives wagging their heads and singing, "Red and yellow, black and white/ They are precious in His sight/ Jesus loves the little children of the world...
...again, and this time she looks a lot like a ghetto cowgirl. MADONNA, 41, releases her first single from her 14th album--both titled Music--on Tuesday, and Borderline it ain't. Although most of the record-buying public has said heck no to techno, Music, partly produced by Frenchman Mirwais Ahmadzai, revels in the heretofore ignored world of Gallic dance-club music. The video for Music, also due out this week, places Madonna on more familiar ground, vamping around with girl pals DEBI MAZAR, right, and backup singer NIKKI HARRIS in the back of a limo. The footage...
Christian Marty was a fighter. The drive that pushed him to the top of the piloting profession also made him an avid sportsman who would hang glide over volcano craters, ski the most difficult slaloms and who, in 1982, became the first Frenchman ever to windsurf across the Atlantic. "In everything he did, he always wanted to prove to himself that he was as good as the best," says Claude Bouvier-Muller, 71, a retired Air France pilot and a close friend. "Yet he never bragged. It was a personal challenge...
...Dior's latest fragrance, J'adore, Bernard Arnault, 50, swivels in an ergonomic chair at the head of a metallic gray conference table on the 16th floor of midtown Manhattan's new LVMH tower. Forget Calvin, Ralph and even Giorgio or Miuccia--this narrow-faced, thin-lipped, dimpled Frenchman is the most powerful person in fashion today...