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Paris without us - well, that would be rather a different story," says Jean-Louis Costes with just a hint of a smile, and if you don't know the man you might think he's an amiable megalomaniac. After all, most Parisians have never heard of Costes or his brother Gilbert; they rarely speak to the press. But if you've spent even a weekend in Paris, it's a good bet they have taken your money and shown you a good time. The Costes brothers are limonadiers, French slang for café owners, but theirs is a lemonade empire...
From epaulets at Jean Paul Gaultier and samurai-inspired skirts at Alexander McQueen to "fetish-gladiator" leathers at vintage shops like Cherry in New York City and Los Angeles, 'tis the season to get in touch with your inner warrior. The trend should only grow after Tom Cruise's star turn in The Last Samurai, due out in December. Costume designer Ngila Dickson scoured museums in Japan, studied countless patterns and worked with blacksmiths, jewelers and Japanese actors to create 300 suits of armor. "We didn't want to let anyone down--especially the Japanese," says Dickson, who was nominated...
...RESIGNED. Lucien Abenhaim, 52, French Surgeon-General, after an estimated 10,000 French died in the recent European heat wave, in Paris. Health Minister Jean-Fran?ois Mattei said Abenha?m failed "to provide us with the information and warning signal that we should have...
...ignored or forgotten, left to fend for themselves or die alone. It's a national reckoning that is not coming easily. The immediate flush of media attention last week centered on the sexier political debate over the slow and initially dismissive reaction by the conservative government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, much of which was on holiday as the death toll mounted. Raffarin has refused to accept any blame, while President Jacques Chirac was bizarrely silent - and on vacation in Canada - for the duration of the heat wave. When he finally addressed the crisis in televised remarks last Thursday...
...announces that some 50 people have died of heat-related illnesses in the Paris region in the past four days. He criticizes the General Directorate for Health for characterizing the deaths as natural. AUG. 12 Pelloux says some 100 people across France have died from the heat. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, vacationing in Combloux, a village in Haute-Savoie, dismisses criticism of his handling of the crisis as "partisan polemics." The heat wave peaks as thermometers hit 42.6C in the Provençal town of Orange. AUG. 13 France's biggest undertaker, General Funeral Services (PFG), announces...