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...only child of a wealthy businessman, Chirac was born in 1932 in Paris and attended the city's top public schools. "Too talkative, too distracted, too excitable to succeed," predicted one school report card. Nonetheless Chirac's grades earned him entrance to the elite Institut d'Etudes Politiques, and he finished third in his class...
Once a dedicated foe of the French cultural establishment, Boulez has become his country's unofficial musical czar. Such is his clout that the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique commands a disproportionate share of the money that the French government spends on music. Boulez has influenced the design of the flexibly configured concert hall at the Cite de la Musique, La Villette, which will become the new site of the Paris Conservatory of Music in 1989. He is also vice president of the board of the new Opera Bastille, which will become the home of the Paris Opera...
...child, Carlos Fuentes never stayed for very long in one place. The son of diplomat, he spent his childhood in Washington D.C., Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Mexico City. He attended the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico and then studied international law at Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva. He has traveled constantly and has been a member of the Mexican delegation to the Labor Organization in Geneva and Mexican ambassador to France...
...realized that most of the hundred or so supercomputers powerful enough to serve his needs were either in the hands of private industry or tied up doing work for the Department of Defense. He finally had to use an American-made Cray 1 at West Germany's Max Planck Institut. "The Germans were extremely gracious," he says. "But it was somewhat ironic...
Western analysts were puzzled as to exactly what Gaddafi had hoped to achieve by the assassination of Bakkush or the doublecrossing of France over the Chad pullout. Referring to Chad, Dominique Moïsi of the Institut Français des Relations Internationales, a Paris-based think tank, suggested, "It could be some thing as simple as Third World pride. He wanted to negotiate on his conditions. He had told the French that he wanted two months to evacuate [instead of the 45 days stipulated in the Franco-Libyan agreement that became effective on Sept. 25]. It looks like...