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During the debate before the war with Iraq, White House officials noted that when their boss and Tony Blair answered the same questions, the Prime Minister's responses always seemed so much more honed and complete. And it wasn't just the accent. In the future, quipped an aide, the President should just follow his counterpart by saying, "Ditto." After Blair's visit here last week, Bush might want to give him some kind of cabinet post for that purpose. Though his six-hour stop was the diplomatic equivalent of a drive-through, Blair threw a lifeline to the President...
...report, written by an ally of President Jacques Chirac, may prefigure aggressive privatization: it recommends creating a single agency to handle state holdings and, significantly, transforming all nationalized businesses into joint-stock firms. Air France is likely the first privatization candidate, but the French press concluded that EDF boss François Roussely's job is at risk. Roussely, calling EDF "healthy, competitive and profitable," noted that government appointees on his board all signed off on his strategy. Plus ça change ... - By Peter Gumbel Everyone's Seeing Red Deficits are back in fashion. Shrugging off the E.U.'s straitjacket...
...just wasn't true. She was totally immersed in Cathal." He remembers how desperately Guerin had wanted another child, and how her fight with cancer made it impossible - something you would never know from watching the movie. And then there's the end. When the film's crime boss - played by a brilliantly menacing Gerard McSorley - is escorted away in handcuffs, there's the sense that justice has been served. But Gilligan was acquitted of her murder. He is serving an unprecedented 28-year sentence for dealing cannabis, but is appealing his conviction, stating that the testimonies against him came...
During the debate before the war with Iraq, White House officials noted that when their boss and Tony Blair answered the same questions, the Prime Minister's responses always seemed so much more honed and complete. And it wasn't just the accent. In the future, quipped an aide, the President should just follow his counterpart by saying, "Ditto...
...would you explain your ownership of three television networks, the largest publisher in italy and other media holdings to the American people? My own TV stations are critical of me. I can't blame them. How do you demonstrate your independence? By criticizing your own boss. I believe I was the most hands-off TV owner ever in Italy. Since I entered politics, I haven't made one phone call to my business group...