WHAT ARE THE ODDS

In today’s climate in France that the burning down of the Israeli embassy was the result of an accident? About as likely as president Chirac’s suggestion that there are no anti-Semites in France.

FLAUBERT ON READING THE NEW YORK TIMES: “I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.” Or maybe it was Le Monde.