The best shot: Sarafina, dazed and exhausted after incarceration and torture, making her way past a white lawn party to visit her servant mother (Miriam Mekeba).

NEWYORKER: Sarafina!

Indeed, just hours after his would-be assassin had been wrestled to the ground, the French head of state was hosting a garden party for the public, on a packed Elysee Palace lawn, grabbing the microphone like a seasoned compere.

BBC: French President Jacques Chirac

People might wonder when they see a black-tie dinner and what -- from everything I hear, what will be a lovely evening in the tent on the South Lawn -- what the role of having a party like that is, given that some people might say there is two wars and a lot of joblessness going on in the country.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing