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...mostly of African descent, and the anti-immigrant Le Pen doesn't consider them "real" Frenchmen. "In the past, Le Pen has complained about the predominance of black and Arab players and said it couldn't really be considered a French team," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But they're smart enough to know that it would be disastrous to take a stand against the team when the whole nation has united behind it. So the irony is that amid a torrent of French national pride, they're forced to keep a low profile...
...success engineered by Zidane, Thuram, Henry and Desailly -- all of African origin -- has been palpable: "The soccer team has done more to promote racial tolerance in France, and pride and a sense of belonging among its immigrant population, than anything the government could ever have done," says Sancton. So whether or not they beat Brazil in Sunday's final, they've already trounced...
...President Clinton, en route to Senegal, made a courtesy call to France's President Jacques Chirac to ensure that his trip wasn?t viewed "as somehow pitting the United States against the French," according to an aide. He needn't have bothered, says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton: "If anything, the French government would like to get the U.S. more involved in Africa, because France is scaling down its own involvement. France no longer wants to be the gendarme of Africa...
...Parisian emergency services have already come under fire from TIME correspondents Tom Sancton and Scott MacLeod, whose book "Death of a Princess: The Investigation" reveals how Diana might have survived, had it not taken two hours to transport her to hospital. Also accused of tardiness is French magistrate Hervé Stephan, whose investigators did not debrief Petel until more than five months after the accident. With a record like that, the investigation is starting to resemble a French Warren Report...
...Diana Crash: The Investigation Could Diana have been saved, even after the crash? Could her chauffer have been stopped in the first place? A new book by TIME correspondents Thomas Sancton and Scott MacLeod tells the inside story of the Princess' last days. Full Story...