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...claiming to be a victim on national television last week. "I didn't deserve this. I think it's too much," complained Juppé, 58, convicted on corruption charges and banned from holding office for 10 years. He told an audience of 13 million that he intended to appeal and would not honor his earlier pledge to quit politics if he lost the case. "One doesn't slide the key under the doormat and abruptly leave people who say they need you," Juppé explained. Who needs Juppé? Chirac, for one. The 71-year-old President has no other...
...reaction to the Juppé verdict ranged from attacks on Chirac and surprising sympathy from some opposition Socialists to assaults on the court's legitimacy from the right. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin reacted with "surprise" to a verdict he qualified as "provisional" - even before Juppé decided to appeal. ump Minister Delegate for Schools Xavier Darcos condemned the ruling as "a political death sentence"; Eric Raoult, vice president of the ump parliamentary group, called it "disproportionate, hypocritical and cynical." Then things got really weird: judges who made the ruling said their phones had been tapped, their computers checked...
Compared with Edwards, Kerry looks like a tourist in South Carolina and still has minimal staff on the ground. His military pedigree may appeal to black voters, but his more remote style may be a liability. Not surprisingly, Al Sharpton has had one of the strongest presences in South Carolina, handing out Thanksgiving dinner to homeless people in Charleston and bringing congregations to their feet across the state. But as the black vote becomes less uniform, a boutique black candidate suffers. "A lot of blacks in South Carolina want the same thing as people in Iowa," says David Bositis...
...Football also reflects our American fondness for litigation. Teams of referees roam the field, sometimes interfering with the play in progress. When eight or ten official eyes are not enough to rule beyond a reasonable doubt, a plaintiff can appeal a decision. In such cases, the officials turn to another American icon - technology...
Although L'Oreal takes a global approach, the company is keyed to the chronological and cultural differences of its consumers. The result of this market segmentation: a long-term global-beauty jigsaw, coming together piece by piece. "We're going to have to imagine things that appeal to both ends of the age spectrum and to very different ethnic consumers," says Lindsay Owen-Jones, 57, the Brit who has been at L'Oreal's helm for the past 19 years. "There used to be one ideal consumer. Tomorrow there are going to be many different ideal consumers...