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...their base in the seaside town of Biarritz--as chic as Cannes but less flashy. Biarritz is blessed with wide beaches, fashionable boutiques, bustling bistros and the Hotel du Palais (011-33-559-41-64-00), originally the summer palace of Empress Eugenie, wife of France's last Emperor, Napoleon III. Rooms start at $455 a night and range to $11,000 for one of three 5,000-sq.-ft. royal suites. The Palais is among the world's last "grande dame" hotels and offers impeccable service, fine dining and a modern...
...rarity. In a youth-obsessed town, Gelbart, an accomplished screenwriter and playwright, is busier than ever at 75. There's the film about Pancho Villa for HBO. A jazz song cycle at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. The sequel to The Candidate for Robert Redford. A new musical about Napoleon. A Las Vegas spectacular about Busby Berkeley...
...around for long. - By Blaine Greteman. Reported by Tadeusz L. Kucharski/Warsaw and Jan Stojaspal The Bubble Economy There must be good economic news somewhere: French drinks group Rémy Cointreau said revived champagne sales tripled its profits in bubbly, to €17.2 million. Or perhaps businesses are heeding Napoleon's supposed words: "In victory, you deserve champagne; in defeat, you need...
...nature of empires to confuse victory in battle with a mandate for unending dominion and to find out the hard way that the two are different. Hannibal was unable to translate triumph at Cannae into final victory over Rome; Napoleon, with all of Europe at his feet, disastrously marched the Grand Army into Russia. A little more than a year after the British slaughtered 11,000 Sudanese at the Battle of Omdurman while losing only 48 of their own men, they were on the run from the artillery and rifles of the Boers...
Adam and his friends were guerrillas--though the word wasn't commonly used until some 40 years later, when Spanish peasants harried Napoleon's army in the Peninsular War. Indeed, the Columbia Encyclopedia notes that guerrilla tactics have been called "the great contribution of the American Revolution to the development of warfare." In this early part of the conflict in Iraq, Saddam Hussein's forces have borrowed heavily from that old American innovation. Now, before you send off enraged e-mail, I'm not suggesting any moral equivalence between the Minutemen and Saddam's thugs. But it is surprising that...