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...continued insistence that it is still just a matter of time before WMD are found and its reported request for $600 million more to continue the investigation should be considered an embarrassment to the nation. The only thing in doubt at this point is the President's credibility. LES HELBAK Boulder, Colo...
...killing innocent people inside cannot be a peaceful solution. The result is the Palestinians' hatred, pure and simple, just as the French used to despise the Nazis for executing innocent people on French soil during World War II. Hate leads only to more hate and violence. Anne Marenghi Les Br?viaires, France...
...everyone as a side that, irrespective of form, can conjure at least once per tournament a performance so impossibly good that there is no way of stopping them. Just such a display sent the All Blacks crashing out of the Cup four years ago and no one will play les Bleus this time without memories of that upset flickering in their minds. Open rugby is the only rugby the French know. "Attack is one of the things you can't control," says their coach, Bernard Laporte. "It belongs to the irrational." Defending champions Australia are the only country to have...
Edouard Vuillard and Paul Gauguin are an odd couple: one famous for his depictions of drawn-curtain bourgeois interiors, the other for bare-breasted Polynesian reveries. But the link between them is direct. In 1889, Vuillard joined a band of fellow art students who called themselves Les Nabis - "prophets" in Hebrew and Arabic. Their credo was "the simplification of form and the exaltation of color," and their guru was Gauguin. Now, the two artists are sharing the same roof, in a superb pair of exhibits at the Grand Palais that round off a blockbuster fall art season in Paris...
...place of their own. "Interest" comes in the form of slightly higher prices on the beverages they sell the new café owner under exclusive contracts. Everybody comes out ahead. So it was that in 1983, Jean-Louis and Gilbert got the money to buy the café in Les Halles that would make them limonade legends, called, not surprisingly, Café Costes. "We realized that all the existing cafés were a bit banal, and that if you put together good design, good marketing, a good location and some hard work, you would have a 'cocktail explosif,'" says...