The Week

Good news: Jacques Chirac was asked by an American journalist why the French are so spineless. Bad news: It was Jeff Gannon who asked.

In other news, we received a letter from a reader (really) who said, “I shouldn’t have doubted my daughter.” She had told him that her university-Cal State, Chico-didn’t have Presidents’ Day off, but did have Cesar Chavez’s birthday off (March 31). He looked up the school calendar on the Internet, and, lo, it was so. To hell with Geo. and Abe. Hail, Cesar!