FRANCE GETS RED CARD FOR 1998 WORLD CUP COSTS

France's soccer team may still be world champions, but the country's accountants have issued a red card to the French state for lavishly funding the 1998 World Cup and a new space-age stadium at taxpayers' expense.

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