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...year, west to musty men's clubs of Manhattan, and east to Japan, where businessmen buy it packaged in Baccarat crystal at $1,000 a bottle. The French drink less and less cognac. "We've been switching to whiskey ever since the Americans liberated us in '44," says Jean-Luc Lebuy, a Remy Martin executive. He voted for the treaty, he said, because "it is the only way for Europe to avoid being gobbled up by the Americans and the Japanese...
...Bobigny self-interest has replaced ideology, and the Communists have built their political machine on a hair-trigger response to the grass roots. "They blanket the city," says opposition city councilor Jean-Luc Romero. "The moment anyone loses a job, a party worker stops by to offer help, part-time employment or a social subsidy." Among Bobigny's 44,000 residents, the 2,700 Communist activists are organized into 70 neighborhood and factory- based cells. If a family cannot pay the rent in its low-income housing project, the local cell leader will intervene with the authorities. If police show...
...accommodate them, Paris-based Club Med plans to open a resort next year on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria (pop. 9 million). The facility will include a 600-room hotel and will share a golf course with a twelve-year-old Club Med in a nearby town. Says Jean-Luc Oizan-Chapon, Club Med's chief operating officer: "We were here before the doors were open, and now our time has come...
...ever heard of a starship captain named Jean-Luc? Captain James T. Kirk would turn over in his grave if he ever found out about his successor--or about any of the nincompoops who make up the characters of Peter David's new novel, The Strike Zone...
...CAPTAIN Jean-Luc Picard is simply a jerk. He is strict with his crew and makes his decisions by the book. He even twitches when he says the word "civilian." Kirk was always wise and likeable. His successor cannot even joke with his second-in-command, whom he insists on calling "Number...