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  • Drogba's "It's a disgrace" tirade at the cameras after the inept refereeing of Tom Henning Ovrebo in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final against Barcelona in 2009 was turned into an excellent rap video, and was one of many occasions when the Ivory Coast's most famous sportsman has revived the spirit of J'Accuse to make a melodramatic point.

    Didier Drogba feels the heat of change at Chelsea | Paul Hayward 2011

  • Mr. Dylan sings it like a jilted ex-lover in a cautionary tale of retribution and even revenge; when he shouts, "How does it feel," it's a veritable cry of "J'Accuse!"

    Ranging Far and Wide Will Friedwald 2011

  • When I wrote my commentaries "Speaking Truth to Strangers" [3] this past June and "J'Accuse" last November [4], I argued that in a perfect world Western donors in Ethiopia could be prosecuted for being accessories before and after the fact to the crime of first-degree "democricide", gross human rights violations and for aiding and abetting Zenawi's kleptocracy.

    Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Feed Them and Bleed Them Alemayehu G. Mariam 2010

  • When Emile Zola published his famous open letter about the case, J'Accuse, in 1898, Beer supported the pro-Dreyfus movement, and she and her Paris correspondent extracted a key confession from an army officer that would later prove Dreyfus to be innocent of treason.

    First Lady of Fleet Street by Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren – review 2011

  • But the claims were made, most famously by the novelist Emile Zola in J'Accuse.

    Michael Roth: The Arar Affair: Shades of Dreyfus 2010

  • SILENT MOVIE, Abel Gance's "J'Accuse," about two men who love the same woman, in French with English subtitles; live organ music by Dennis James, 4: 30 p.m.,

    D.C. community calendar, June 17 to 24, 2010 2010

  • The core of the former Filmmuseum's work is equal parts love and chemistry: celluloid classics like Abel Gance's 1919 epic "J'Accuse" are restored and then formatted for public viewing and academic use.

    An Eye for Restoring Classic Scenes Joel Weickgenant 2010

  • Hence her complex portrait of Émile Zola, the novelist who took up Dreyfus's cause so boldly as to publish an open letter to the president of the French republic, in effect indicting the nation for mendacity and anti-Semitism, and beginning with the clarion call "J'Accuse ..!"

    Ruth Harris's "Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, and the Scandal of the Century" 2010

  • The core of the former Filmmuseum's work is equal parts love and chemistry: celluloid classics like Abel Gance's 1919 epic "J'Accuse" are restored and then formatted for public viewing and academic use.

    An Eye for Restoring Classic Scenes Joel Weickgenant 2010

  • The core of the former Filmmuseum's work is equal parts love and chemistry: celluloid classics like Abel Gance's 1919 epic "J'Accuse" are restored and then formatted for public viewing and academic use.

    An Eye for Restoring Classic Scenes Joel Weickgenant 2010

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