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...American member of Goddio's underwater team. In the 1980s, Goddio concentrated on excavating shipwrecks, including a Chinese junk and the Spanish galleon San Diego, off the coast of the Philippines. Since then, he has focused on Egypt. In 1999, his team excavated the remains of L'Orient, Napoleon's warship sunk by Lord Nelson in 1798 during the Battle of Abukir. Turning to the antique world, Goddio used the magnetometer to develop the most detailed map ever made of the ancient Egyptian coastline. Excavations based on this topographical research led to his discovery of Herakleion and part...
...along with those of others. Today, the U.S. is more prone to rend than to mend the international fabric. But why should Gulliver bear the ropes? Easy. Better to contain yourself than to have others gang up on you. This has been the fate of all hegemonic powers from Napoleon's France to Stalin's Russia. Gulliver did well for himself by doing good for others. He got into trouble when he forgot etiquette and emptied his bladder on the royal palace of the Lilliputians...
...Emperor’s New Clothes (June 14): With a veteran TV director and novice screenwriters, this dodgy enterprise stars Ian Holm in this Prince and the Pauper affair. As Napoleon, he escapes from prison late in life and heads to France to reclaim his throne, leaving a double in his place (also Holm). But drama and wholesome highbrow romance derail his plans...
...well-accented by the fruit and two crisp cookies. The clove ice cream that accompanied the toasted phyllo pastry with dates, honey and pistachio ($6) was perhaps the big winner of the night. Additional choices included warm chocolate cake with cinnamon ice cream ($6) and very appealing caramelized banana napoleon ($6). Meyer lemons seem to be popping up just as frequently as skate these days, and the Blue Room is not one to miss a trend, throwing them onto the menu in a sorbet with anise seed biscotti ($5). Dates—the interpersonal kind, not the fruits?...
...look back 30 years ago, there were certain issues with the Kennedys, with Richard Nixon, that focused my interest." Lucas' own geopolitics can sound pretty bleak: "All democracies turn into dictatorships--but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea...What kinds of things push people and institutions into this direction...