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...that the portly 48-year-old is also a decidedly un-Gallic lawyer from the central Indian city of Bhopal. Nevertheless, according to the book Le Rajah de Bourbon, published last week by European blueblood Prince Michael of Greece (a Bourbon scion himself), Balthazar is a direct descendant of Jean de Bourbon, a swashbuckling nephew of Henri IV who joined the court of the Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1560. While Jean's progeny faded into obscurity in the East, Henri IV's ruled France for centuries until the guillotine ended the Bourbon line at Louis XVI in 1793. Now, Prince...
...Jean-Cyrill Spinetta recalls the dark days of 1997 when he took command of financially strapped Air France, charged with pulling the airline out of a tailspin of labor unrest and a half-decade of losses. A growing number of French customers, long accustomed to work stoppages, viewed the airline with distrust and scorn. "When people start looking at their own flag carrier as unreliable, you've really got a problem," says Spinetta...
...French duo have returned with “Pocket Symphony” and a fresh supply of their patented haute-electronica. Their sound combines rigorous piano, string, and synth melodies with a variety of eclectic instrumentals, plus vocals by both group members, Nicholas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel. In “Pocket Sympony,” Air continues to exploit their original sound and attempts to forge a perfect balance between synths and live instrumentation. However, many of the songs seem to shy away from the pulsing intensity of “Talkie Walkie” tracks...
...spectre of Snoop Dogg, of Springfest, and of Wyclef Jean that kept the UC from shelling out the cash to pay for your morning paper. And it’s not because of any particular dislike for the daily news, either; the UC is one of the most risk-averse organizations at Harvard...
...place where, once I accepted my identity and responsibilities as a French citizen, I wasn't expected to do something with a broom in my hand, or a ball between my feet." It would be ironic - and a bitter indictment of France's mainstream political parties - if it took Jean-Marie Le Pen to get such a message across to voters who are yearning to hear...