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...takes more than bulging pockets to create national footballing brilliance and depth, as the defeat by Spain proved. But cash always helps. "Money alone is no guarantee, but without a lot of money you don't stand even a chance," says French coach Rolland Courbis, who once directed clubs including Bordeaux, Marseilles and Alania Vladikavkaz in the Russian republic of North Ossetia. "Russia has the major resources: money, a huge population and people who know football. Now it's a question of competence in how well the system can be organized, and the focus kept on long-term development...
...artisanal wine bar near Paris' Canal St. Martin. He claims there are no villains in his piece, but audiences might come to a different conclusion after watching Nossiter's interviews with figures representing those very forces of homogenization. High-end vintners from France to California hire Michel Rolland, a supremely confident consultant from Pomerol in the Bordeaux region, to upgrade their production. His lab can reduce a blackberry bouquet into its precise chemical constituents, and then tell the paying customer how to put them into his own vintage. After seeing the film, Rolland launched an ad hominem attack claiming Nossiter...
DIED. YETUNDE PRICE, 31, eldest sister of tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams, to whom she was a part-time personal assistant; after being shot as she sat in a van with her companion, Rolland Wormley, 28, outside a suspected drug house about a mile from the tennis courts where Venus and Serena rose to fame; in gang-plagued Compton, Calif. The motive for the shooting was unclear, but police arrested and charged an alleged gang associate, Aaron Michael Hammer, 24, with Price's murder...
...Best Markets: On Sunday mornings, the food-and-flower market on the Quai des Celestins, and the artists? and artisans? market across the Saône on the Quai Romain-Rolland...
...course, claimed that the two-thirds were unduly influenced by the "sensationalism" of the media coverage of events like the Kayna Rolland shooting. The moms know better than to buy that lie. The shootings have been sensational, simply by the fact that they continue to occur and recur, again and again. The marchers noted that 12 children are killed by guns everyday, the same guns that 45 percent of Americans keep in their homes...