THE OLD MAN — David Remnick

The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: "History had other ideas. Last week, in the Paris suburb of Clamart, a French general named Christian Estripeau stood in front of the cameras and announced, �M. Yasir Arafat, president of the Palestinian Authority, died at the Percy Military Training Hospital in Clamart on November 11, 2004, at three-thirty.� French privacy laws prevented him from disclosing the medical details. "