The World Cup of pastry gives the United States the chance to taste a sweet victory AN ELITE team of specialists, hired by a top White House aide and trained at a secret facility in southern California, has been given a vital mission: to beat the French. Never mind the Bordeaux boycott, the “freedom fries” or the lame jokes about tree-lined boulevards and the Germans liking to march in the shade. The job of this highly skilled unit is to inflict the worst kind of shame on the country that most publicly failed to support the Iraq war. The team’s...