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Denis, 38, her husband and their brood of nine will expand into a larger residence. Now 450 crates are sealed and only 50 more wait to be filled with toys and clothes and kitchenware and books and photos and the other flotsam of family life. The woman deserves a medal. That's exactly the conclusion the French authorities reached earlier this year. In May, Denis traveled from her home in St.-Germain-en-Laye, an affluent Parisian commuter town, to the capital. There, in the Salle des Fêtes of the Elysées Palace, French President Jacques Chirac...
...BEHIND IT Run by Jon Soltz, who served in Iraq in 2003, the group counts among its directors former NATO Commander Wesley Clark and ex-Senator Bob Kerrey, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam, both Democrats...
...There was little doubt that Perelman...deserved a Fields Medal,” Nasar and Gruber wrote—even though the hermetic genius declined the honor...
...center of the New Yorker article are reclusive Russian mathematician Grigory Perelman and the more sociable Yau. The story opens with a full-page illustration rendering a bespectacled, white-haired, Asian man tugging at a medal labeled “Fields” that dangles from the neck of a brown-bearded Caucasian. Below, the caption reads: “Grigory Perelman (right) says, ‘If the proof is correct, then no other recognition is need.’ Shing-Tung Yau isn’t so sure...
Cooper wrote that this illustration and the article’s text falsely implied that Yau was trying to rob Perelman of the Fields Medal...