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Also that month, when Cardinal Bernard F. Law ’53 resigned amidst a sexual abuse scandal, The Boston Globe reported that Hehir—a vocal critic of the Church’s handling of the scandal—was a “longshot” candidate for the archbishop post...
When the lights went down after John Galliano's 18-karat Christian Dior haute couture show in Paris, a pack of paparazzi nearly trampled Bernard Arnault, chairman of Dior's owner LVMH, (Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton), as they lunged for Sarah Jessica Parker. "Please, please tell Mr. Galliano I am so sorry, but I can't go backstage," she said as they snapped away. Parker was too busy putting on her own fashion show across town at the Hotel Plaza Athenee, where she was filming the final episode of Sex and the City...
...evidence from 72 witnesses - all of it posted daily on the inquiry's website. His 328-page report exonerated the government and castigated the BBC. "Lord Hutton has performed a massive public service," wrote the Sun newspaper. But others called the report a whitewash - unbalanced and unfairly critical. Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's onetime press secretary, said, "The BBC has been horribly badly dealt with by Hutton, which is the most one-sided report you could ever imagine...
...story that could be misinterpreted: my father is Pakistani, my passport is full of multiple visas to Pakistan, I've made occasional visits to Indonesia--would they believe I went just to the Hindu island of Bali? No, that poses its own problems. Even the book I carry--Bernard-Henri Levy's Who Killed Daniel Pearl?--begins to worry me. I reassure myself that at least I hold a British passport, but then I recall that both Richard Reid, the would-be shoe bomber, and Omar Sheikh, Pearl's killer, had the same credential. It's unnerving to think that...
Muzzling Stock Analysts Who will dare say anything bad about a French company again? That question is unnerving stock-market analysts following a one-two punch last week. The Paris Commercial Court fined Morgan Stanley €30 million for harm done to LVMH, Bernard Arnault's luxury-goods firm. LVMH argued that Morgan Stanley, which has worked for rival Gucci, issued biased reports against it. (The firm will appeal.) A day later, catering giant Sodexho called in French regulators after a Citigroup Smith Barney report sent its stock reeling. Both LVMH and Sodexho said they were protecting themselves against erroneous...