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...opposition anyway. Those who vote for Berlusconi are entirely indifferent to it." Trying To Generate Interest Paying clients interest on checking accounts may be old hat in places like the U.S., Britain and Spain. But when France's mutual group Caisse d'Epargne announced last week it would begin doing so, it was heralded as revolutionary. Caisse d'Epargne's promise to pay 0.5% to 1% interest on its roughly 4.5 million current accounts make it the first major bank in France to exploit last month's regulation changes quashing 70-year-old laws banning certain charges and payments...
...capering aside ("We've got to attack France!"), Coulter was an Ivy League--educated legal writer before she was a TV pundit. She's an omnivorous reader (everything from her friend Matt Drudge's website to the works of French philosopher Jacques Ellul), and she isn't afraid to begin a column on Bush, as she did in January, "Maybe he is an idiot." (The column pointed out that the most direct way to make abortion illegal would be ... to make abortion illegal--not, as Bush had exhorted that week, "to change hearts.") Although Coulter is often compared to Rush...
Some conservatives--many of them Coulter's rivals for screen time, as she points out--have also drawn their knives. "Ann's stuff isn't very serious," says a pundit who didn't want to begin a public spat with Coulter. "We have this argument every now and then among our side: whether she is a net minus or net plus to conservatism. I have come to the conclusion that she's a minus." Even fans speak of Coulter in ways that suggest some distance: "I think Ann is a brilliant girl, and she's got the quickest mouth...
...There are currently 3,500 accredited journalists covering the event, and we are all trying to figure out when interest in this story may begin to wane. Most of the major network anchors plan to leave after the funeral on Friday. But many will be back in time for the conclave. During the conclave, there will still be plenty to chatter about: speculating on the choice of successor, explaining the process, remarking on the secrecy. But TV - which until now has been able to show the dramatic live images of the crowds, of St. Peter's, of the Pope...
...Naturally, there was intense curiosity among the journalists over the details of the conclave at which some 117 cardinals - at least those of them healthy enough to make the trip to Rome - will choose a successor to Pope John Paul II. That event will begin some fifteen to twenty days after the pontiff's death, meaning one week from next Sunday at the earliest. But it is held in the deepest of secrecy, with the cardinals sequestered far more tightly than any jury in a celebrity trial in the U.S. A special hotel has been built inside the Vatican...