Word: bernard
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...This is a perfect opportunity for Western governments to stand up to the Chinese regime’s human rights record and advocate for dialogue with the Dalai Lama. On Tuesday afternoon, the French foreign minister and human rights advocate Bernard Kouchner said that Reporters Without Borders’ idea of boycotting the Olympics opening ceremony should be considered at the next European Union foreign ministers gathering, scheduled for March 28th. Considering the overwhelming power of the Chinese in both economic and military terms, international pressure in the context of the Olympics remains the Tibetans’ best hope...
...Part of it was being not just the brilliant son of a multimillionaire - someone who surely sensed entitlement from an early age - but the son of a particular multimillionaire, Bernard Spitzer. Bernard (who is in his 80s and suffering from Parkinson's) was a fierce, demanding parent. He once reduced Eliot to tears during a game of Monopoly. Bernard, a real estate developer, had ordered his son - at the time a boy of 7 or 8 - to sell him a piece of property; Eliot then couldn't afford the rent when a roll of the dice landed him on that...
Jorma Elo’s “In On Blue,” on the other hand, was remarkable. Even on a titular level, it challenged the audience. The music was by Bernard Hermann, a composer who created numerous scores for Alfred Hitchcock films, and the lighting and costumes were overwhelmingly blue. The dancers jerked their arms and legs robotically. One ballerina even twitched perceptibly as she was laid on the stage floor...
Perhaps you've heard that tune before? It's the strategy that Bernard Arnault used so brilliantly in creating LVMH out of a bunch of high-end, underachieving fashion labels: share resources, consolidate the back end to cut costs but nourish the brands' creativity, quality and individuality. "They have more money to do better development and make better products," says audiophile Tim Schwartz, 47, of Goodyear, Ariz., who owns $250,000 worth of McIntosh gear. "The company is leaving them alone so Randall can do his thing...
...campaign. It spent money with abandon in the earliest primaries and assumed that the race would not last past Super Tuesday, on Feb. 5 - and failed to prepare for any of the states that followed. Two weeks before the Texas primary, Bill Clinton telephoned Waco insurance mogul and philanthropist Bernard Rapoport, a friend and backer since the 1970s. Rapoport told Clinton that this was the first contact he had had from anyone on the campaign. "He was madder than mad," Rapoport says. "He was right. There was so much we could have done, but we never heard from anyone...