Word: bernard
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...numbers have increased by at least 30% over the past five years. Foreigners, many of them illegals, account for more than 60% of the prostitutes in France. Although Paris remains the market leader, business is booming outside the capital too. "Sarkozy has decided to clean up the streets," says Bernard Lemettre, president of the Nest Movement, a Catholic group that helps prostitutes to break out of the business and build new lives. That line may work with constituents, but Lemettre and other social workers have slammed it as simplistic. "The government's position is: We'll never be able...
Labor expert and Friendly Professor of Law Paul C. Weiler moderated the forum with Elaine Bernard, executive director of Harvard’s Trade Union Program...
...dinner discussion on a topic of the day. When they traveled, they would test the kids on what they were seeing. The Spitzers also attempted to impart a sense of compassion. "We tried to teach them that it isn't enough just to make your own pile," says Bernard...
...passage in which the son finally beats the father at tennis. As a teen, Spitzer found himself near that goal one day, closing in for the kill. When his father paused to catch his breath, Spitzer called out, "Mom, Dad is stalling!" The family still talks about the time Bernard cruelly whipped his son in Monopoly...
...past two years, he and Lynne have held periodic dinner parties - an attendee calls them "salons" - featuring big thinkers on topics ranging from American political history (David McCullough) to Islam's relationship with the West (Bernard Lewis). To prepare for a Meet the Press session last fall, Matalin took him two 6-in.-thick binders full of briefing materials. "He loves to prepare," she says. "You can't give him too much information. He just swallows it and asks for more...