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...globalization, the very face of nationhood is changing. A simple glance at a photograph of the current French national team is enough to explain why the leader of France's racist far right, Jean Marie Le Pen, long ago disowned it as "not a real French team." Every player but two in its starting lineup has roots in Africa. For the past two World Cups, France's hopes have rested on the shoulders of the exquisitely talented midfielder Zinedine Zidane, born in Algeria. Holland, too, fields a squad today that contains at least six players who originate from the Dutch...
...well. [Martina] Hingis was in the picture; Steffi [Graf] was there. People had more feeling about the players. There are too many other options for fans to not do a better job of that. The players have to realize that. If they had any idea of what Billie Jean [King] or Rod Laver had to do to increase the awareness of the sport...
...hard to find anybody in France who feels sorry for Jean-Marie Messier, the self-promoting former head of Vivendi Universal, who tried to turn the onetime water utility into a glitzy worldwide media giant and ended up driving it to the brink of bankruptcy. But after Messier was held in jail for 36 hours recently by magistrates who opened a formal criminal investigation against him, the big question is no longer how inept he's been. It's whether he was solely responsible for Vivendi's near downfall or is just taking the fall for the failings...
...directors who sat on Vivendi's board, which signed off on most of Messier's adventures? "The directors aren't choirboys," says Canoy. "They should be sanctioned, too, because they let Messier get away with this." The board has been thoroughly reshuffled since Messier was replaced by Jean-René Fourtou in July 2002. The company declines comment. Still, by focusing all the attention on Messier, "we're just kicking a man who's down," Neuville says. "To have real corporate governance in France, we need to examine all the causes of the disaster...
...very big blow to jihadists," says one French counterterrorism official. The French say Arif, a veteran of Afghan and Chechen camps, is implicated in a foiled December 2000 plot to bomb the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral. Arif's alleged role involved recruiting, organizing and oversight. French antiterror magistrates Jean-Louis Bruguière and Jean-François Ricard are also holding Arif for alleged similar involvement with a Chechen-trained group arrested outside Paris in December 2002 that is suspected of planning a chemical-bomb attack. "Arif's activities and associates span from Azerbaijan to England ," the French...