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France and its new President Jacques Chirac show no overt indications of pique at Washington's sudden front-running role. In fact, officials in Paris take some credit for the development, pointing out that it was Chirac who pushed for a well-armed Rapid Reaction Force and urged NATO to...
One heralded study, conducted by French researcher Jacques Benveniste and published by Nature in 1988, was challenged by a Nature-sponsored team of investigators who flew to Paris to watch Benveniste repeat his experiments. The team found that the tests were "ill-controlled" and failed to exclude "systematic error, including...
Neither his admirers nor his detractors were surprised by Holbrooke's diplomatic coup. In terms both camps could embrace, a State Department colleague says, "Dick is very abrasive and arrogant, but he is also a brilliant conceptualizer and tactician." Those qualities characterize Holbrooke's career both in and out of...
Critics also challenged the French decision on technical grounds, questioning whether this series of tests would mark a fundamental advance in simulation technology. "A few more tests won't really make much difference in their program," says a U.S. State Department expert. "They can improve it, but they won't...
Stettheimer was a rich amateur. One of four daughters, she studied art in Germany, lived for a time in Paris, and after the outbreak of war in 1914 returned to New York. Her home on the Upper West Side became one of an overlapping array of salons devoted to modernism...