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Nevertheless, election night held an unpleasant surprise for Sarkozy: the stunning defeat of conservative heavyweight Alain Juppe, who as Environment, Transport, and Sustainable Energy Minister was number two in Sarkozy's pre-election government. Juppe's failure to win a legislative seat leaves his political future in grave doubt...
...Something similar might be said of the more aspiring Private Fears in Public Places, an unlikely adaptation by Alain Resnais, once the master of such high art revels as Last Year at Marienbad and Hiroshima Mon Amour, of a play by Alan Ayckbourn, a farceur who has always loved, sometimes to excess, the intricate braiding of characters and story lines. Everything in this movie seems to have been made on a soundstage and, for reasons best known to the director, his Paris is caught in a perpetual blizzard; it goes on for the several days consumed by the plot...
...financial shape than is commonly believed. Nonperforming loans have been cut from 20% to as low as 3%, he says. Industry experts say the real number is probably three times that, but admit Vietnam has made progress in reducing bad loans. "It's not a China-like situation," says Alain Cany, chief executive for HSBC in Vietnam. (Up to 50% of the loan portfolios of China's big state-owned banks were nonperforming when the country joined the WTO, according to Standard & Poor...
...also has no public relations department nor even a business card - just his cellphone and backpack and motorcycle, deciding each morning at which location he'll spend the day. Alain Cojean would be a decidedly unconventional CEO, if ever he cared to take the title. Daily menus and product development is more and more solely in the hands of Fred Maquair, his associate and old friend of almost two decades. After the first few restaurants opened, Cojean bought a large kitchen in an industrial section of the Left Bank, where the food for the day is prepared then delivered...
...toward healthier diets and lifestyles. Indeed, with next February's law that will prohibiting smoking in cafes and restaurants, and even the international fast food chains adding veggie-centric offerings, the proverbial tipping point may have already been reached. All this attention on nutrition and fresh food environments makes Alain Cojean one happy restauranteur. He doesn't even mind the competition. Well, at least not anymore. "It bugged me at first that we kind of served as a laboratory for some of these other ones before they got started," he says, "but in the end, more fresh food around town...