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...Bernard Baumohl: This is more news that reinforces the view that the economy is in serious trouble. In fact, its pulse is barely noticeable, and in danger or flatlining...
...Tapie Gets a Rematch Another notable comeback was staged last week in Marseilles where Bernard Tapie returned to run its doleful soccer club, Olympique Marseille. Tapie's first stint there from 1986-1994 ended in a five-month prison term on multiple corruption convictions, but not before he'd trans-formed OM into a powerhouse, winning four national titles and France's only pro European crown. His popularity allowed him to launch a political career that peaked with election to Parliament in 1989 and a 1992 appointment as Urban Affairs Minister. But legal authorities investigating Tapie's businesses uncovered evidence...
University of Michigan President Lee C. Bollinger has long been known as First Amendment scholar. Recently, however, he has been forced to read up on a different section of constitutional law. In a stinging defeat on an issue which Bollinger has championed, U.S. District Court Judge Bernard Friedman ruled in late March that the Michigan law school had to abandon its affirmative action policy because it was “indistinguishable from a straight quota system...
...John Greenwald. Reported by Bernard Baumohl and Amanda Bower/New York
Gucci creative director TOM FORD and Gucci Group CEO DOMENICO DE SOLE are continuing their game of one-upmanship in their competition with luxury-goods rival LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton and its chief, Bernard Arnault. In their effort to diversify Gucci's fashion line and acquire designers with buzz, Ford and De Sole have already raided cutting-edge London designer Alexander McQueen from LVMH. Now the pair are set to announce that Chloe's STELLA MCCARTNEY (a media-garnering celebrity favorite and Paul's daughter) is launching her own label under Gucci; red-hot fashion star Nicolas Ghesquiere will...