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...were Camille Savès in Bouzy, Jacquesson in Dizy, Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus and Leclerc Briant in Epernay. Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see www.leclercbriant.com), for a smallish fee you can learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I didn't think I could do it. But I shouted like a little kid when I sliced off the bottle's top in one fell swoop. There's something about the region that helps everyone's bubbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bubbly's Best | 9/5/2004 | See Source »

Nameless has three main adversaries: Sky (Donnie Yen), a master martial artist; Broken Sword (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), a calligrapher who is as adroit with a saber as with a brush; and Flying Snow (Maggie Cheung), Broken Sword's soul mate. Flying Snow has a side skirmish with Moon (Zhang Ziyi), Broken Sword's smitten apprentice. Loyalties are tested, alliances made and sundered. Death is the price for betrayal--of the Emperor or the heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men, Women and Fighting | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

Pascal Leclerc Briant has an eccentric flair as well as an ability to make beautiful champagnes. If you inquire ahead (see leclercbriant.com) for a smallish fee you can rappel down into his caves or learn to saber a champagne bottle. Holding the thick sword on the bottle's neck, I didn't think I could do it. But I shouted like a little kid when I sliced off the bottle's top in one swift swoop. There's something about the region that helps everyone's bubbles rise to the surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bubbly's Best | 8/16/2004 | See Source »

SADA JACOBSON AGE 21 HOMETOWN Dunwoody, Ga. EVENT Saber THE DRAMA Yale student Jacobson is the first U.S. woman ranked No. 1 in the world in saber. In Athens watch for a sibling square-off; sister Emily qualified in the same event. THE COMPETITION Few will be able to parry Jacobson's advances to gold in this event's Olympic debut (a cavalryman's discipline, it joins foil and epee). But Russia's Elena Netchaeva and first-time Olympian Anne-Lise Touya of France will certainly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympians | 8/9/2004 | See Source »

...Crimson was led by Stinetorf (11th place in foil), Austin (21st in epee), McGlade (13th in epee) and senior Eunice Yi (23rd in saber) at the NCAA Championships at Brandeis. Harvard’s underclassmen will try next year to improve on their school-best eighth-place performance at the NCAAs next year...

Author: By Alex Mcphillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Youth Shines for Fencing | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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