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Balthazar Napoleon de Bourbon may be the heir to the lapsed French throne. That sounds reasonable enough-except 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...
...soccer. The Nigerian national team of his youth, nicknamed the ‘Super Eagles,’ had not yet evolved into the World Cup contender of the early ’90s, and so young Nigerian boys cast their eyes west to Brazil, where Péle was capturing the world’s imagination...
...played by John Carroll Lynch, who was the homicidal Varlyn Stroud on HBO's Carnivàle. Deep into the movie, Allen is questioned by Toschi and Armstrong, and suddenly Zodiac forgets its vibe of a CSI: SF episode at miniseries length and gives us a high-voltage face-off with unearthly evil...
...part, Sarkozy seems to be seeking to counter Le Pen's advances among suburban minorities by increasingly calling for traditional Le Pen voters to join his campaign. Speaking of National Front voters, Sarkozy last month told a rally of supporters that "demonizing them is counterproductive...
...Whether he'll succeed in integrating them into his own electorate is a mystery, as are the intentions of voters in the ethnically mixed suburbs (polling along ethnic lines still being taboo in France). But Le Pen's bulldog growl is not falling entirely on deaf ears in the suburbs. "We've been waiting for someone to say, 'If you're French above all, you're welcome and have a place among us,'" says Habiba, who contrasts Le Pen's appeal with that of mainstream politicians who "keep telling us we're French, but continue shutting us out as eternal...