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Sunday's run-off election confirmed the general thrust of the first round of voting - albeit without the landslide expected by the UMP. Riding the wake of Sarkozy's popularity, UMP and allied conservative candidates retained their domination of parliament, winning 344 seats of the legislature?s 577 total. But that victory also saw the UMP lose 46 of its outgoing seats to the Socialists, who surprisingly boosted their ranks from 148 to 186 seats. Though other leftist parties like the Greens and Communists wilted to around a collective 23, the overall result handed the opposition 227 seats. Sarkozy...
...even as eBay joins the list of Google's agitators, the search giant continues to soar, having recently overtaken Cisco Systems, albeit briefly, as Silicon Valley's most valuable company, with a market cap approaching $160 billion. And its battles don't seem to affect Google's broader reputation: In a recent survey by research firm Universum, 5,500 MBA graduates ranked Google the most attractive of all companies to work for this year...
...romance began in a slightly sketchy, albeit familiar, way. On his brother’s advice, J. Andy Tau ’07 was trolling through the freshman facebook looking for beautiful women when he came across the picture of Jocelyn D. Hsu ’07. “And what do you know,” Tau, a Houston native, remembers. “The most beautiful girl in there was Asian, from Texas, and I had already met her doing dorm crew, so it was perfect.” The couple is getting married on July...
...After all, the effects of caffeine and alcohol consumption are similarly chemically-induced (albeit state-sanctioned). Parents who would be horrified at the thought of legalizing speed happily give Adderall, an amphetamine, to children. The only difference is that prescribed drugs “fix” a problem, supposedly making you more normal (happier if you are depressed, calmer if you are agitated, etc.), whereas illegal drugs—which can have the same physiological effects—make you “high,” or abnormal...
...live music, cheap food and drink, and was a fun place to party. Those events are valuable, but they shouldn’t be the pub’s raison d’être. The Queen’s Head has simply become the backdrop for such nights, albeit more frequently than in 2005. It remains mostly empty the rest of the time because of this party-night image. It’s true that there may be an additional costs associated with longer hours, but the additional revenues would cover some of those costs, and the added benefit...