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French pay-to-view channel Canal Plus enjoys a reputation as the nation's premier source of TV entertainment, but it has also produced a real-life spy tale worthy of a B movie. Last week former military intelligence agent Pierre Martinet claimed that while working for Canal Plus' internal security unit, he'd been assigned to a secret project designed to smear Bruno Gaccio, lead writer of the channel's popular news parody, Les Guignols de l'Info. Martinet's new book recounts how he shadowed Gaccio for six months in 2002 in what he says was an effort...
...Honor-Country,' " says retired Colonel John Wheeler Jr., class of '42, "and we still do. The place gets hold of you. When I marched in my first parade I broke down and cried." Open-minded and unafraid to criticize West Point, Cadet Captain Lissa Young is hardly a military martinet. Yet old grads will not be surprised to learn that when Young takes her place in the Long Gray Line on Saturdays, she too sometimes has to swallow back tears of pride. --By Evan Thomas
...Bush Administration did not come into office intent on changing the world. "There is nothing wrong with doing something that benefits all humanity," wrote Rice in her Foreign Affairs article, with the air of a martinet schoolmarm lecturing her students, "but that is, in a sense, a second-order effect." Bush himself, when a candidate for the presidency, seemed leery about pushing American values on other countries. His Administration, he said in a 2000 presidential debate, would not "go around the world saying, 'We do it this way, so should you.'" But Sept. 11 changed everything. The attacks on that...
...martinet among instructors, Erika (Isabelle Huppert) humiliates her pupils and then schemes to help them win competitions. She plays the sexual sadist with her prize student Walter (Benoit Magimel) yet engages in masochistic mutilation on her own. Erika would be quite a handful for any actress, but the great Huppert has a sure grasp on her. In this kinky, often goofy, never less than fascinating psychodrama, she makes sense of a stern, extreme personality. Huppert could be speaking to the audience as well as to Walter when she says, "I want all you want. I have all you need...
...Francisco, has won many admirers, like Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson, who calls him "a straight-shooter, very professional - a guy who knows what he's talking about." He also has his share of detractors. One lawyer who worked for Mueller at Justice calls him "a bit of a martinet." Another says he let subordinates know the rule was "my way or the highway...