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...Roland Dumas had it all. Suave, wealthy and well connected, the silver-haired lawyer, art collector and bon vivant reveled in a life of power and influence. Picasso and Giacometti were his clients. His long list of female conquests included opera singers and models. His best friend was the late Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who twice named him Foreign Minister and in 1995 appointed him President of the Constitutional Council, roughly equivalent to the U.S. Supreme Court, making Dumas France's fifth highest-ranking official. But that charmed life seemed on the verge of imploding last week when two French...
...doorstep began with a femme fatale, Christine Deviers-Joncour, 51, a sultry, high-living brunet who sluiced millions out of Elf's coffers to buy a palatial Paris apartment, designer clothes, fancy restaurant meals, exotic vacations--and a $2,000 pair of handmade boots for her protector Roland Dumas. Whether Deviers-Joncour and Elf were also the source of the millions of dollars that Dumas deposited in his personal bank accounts from 1991 to 1995, much of it in cash, is what the magistrates are seeking to find...
Pending a final decision from Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, Winfrey--who is also retiring from his position at Boston's Roland Hayes School of Music--will become an advisor to Kuumba...
...full story of the Hong Kong Incident begins in 1918 with the most lethal epidemic in human history, one that eclipsed even the medieval Black Death. "It's why we do what we do every year," says Roland A. Levandowski, the Food and Drug Administration's chief flu expert and a member of the pandemic planning group. "This experience in Hong Kong, even if it doesn't go anywhere, is a reminder that these things can happen...
...French writer Roland Barthes used to argue that every truly moving photograph has a single absorbing spot, a place that calls forth feeling. He called it the punctum, Latin for puncture or point. It could be something as simple as the little smudge that is the comet Hale-Bopp, which was for a while the world's most celebrated dot. Since it was an ancient dot, and one that got around a lot, it shed an astral glamour wherever it appeared. Like the President or Sharon Stone, it made everything, even whole mountain ranges, look more consequential beside...