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Semper fidelis, the United States Marines' motto, commands members of the élite corps to be ever faithful. Former Marine Major Scott Ritter retains the military bearing and cropped haircut of his 12 years in the service. But he has lost faith in his government's policy toward Iraq, where he was the top inspector for UNSCOM, the United Nations weapons inspection team. He quit that post in 1998, complaining that the Clinton Administration was letting Saddam Hussein off too easily. No one would levy the same charge against the current White House, but Ritter is now even more critical...
...wife Emily, nothing could be further from the truth. Lutyens - the prolific and imaginative designer behind much of Imperial New Delhi, London's Cenotaph war memorial and scores of country houses in England and France - had the good luck to work at a time when a leisured élite gave him the space to realize his ideals. Though his reputation dipped following his 1944 death and the rise of modernism, a new generation of critics has discovered the enduring beauty of his creations. Shy, reluctant to face facts, indifferent to his children and driven by his work, Ned Lutyens never...
...lucky. Though once regarded as a national hero for turning a sleepy French water company into the world's second-largest media group, Vivendi Universal, Messier saw his corporate reign come to an ignoble end last week as the stock market and the French media, business and cultural élite - and even the Elysée itself - converged to oust him. In France, Messier's name is now close to dirt - which also approximates Vivendi Universal's stock price. Shares have dropped around 70% since the start of the year and nearly 40% in the week of Messier's eviction...
...UNESCO's International Bioethics Committee. Her expertise, insistence on the urgency of farreaching international biotech accords and collegial manner won Lenoir high marks from foreign colleagues, and many in Brussels cheered her selection by Raffarin. Lenoir's European bona fides are accompanied by experience within France's power élite, whose male domination she challenged early on. In 1986, Mitterrand named her to the Conseil d'Etat - a governmental policy advisory panel - and in 1988 she was tapped as chief of staff of the then leftist government's Justice Ministry. In 1992 she became the first woman ever appointed...
...Howard Zinn, in his book "Terrorism and War" (Seven Stories Press; 159 pages; $9.95) makes many of the same points as Chomsky (and in the same interview format), but in a tone more of sorrow than of anger: he comes off as Chomsky Lite. "We have to think about this awful thing that happened on September 11," Zinn states. "We need to feel deeply for the victims and the families. But we also need to learn from it." Part of the learning process is to try to make an effort to understand why those people contemptuously (and simple-mindedly) dismissed...