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...lack of an) Italian Job Francesco Bruno has given up hope of ever finding a permanent job. The best the 30-year-old university graduate says he can expect is a call back from Alitalia for another short-term contract as a flight attendant. "I see myself as a permanent temporary worker," says Bruno, who asked that his real name not be used for fear of jeopardizing his standing with the airline. With Europe's ongoing push to create a job market with U.S.-style flexibility, such employment uncertainty is becoming common. Eurostat reports that the number of workers...
...movement Andante comodo along. He chose his tempi with the utmost of care; the opening movement was convincingly played, its construction logically laid out, its peaks ecstatic and its valleys expansive. When one thinks of all the great conductors who have left recordings of the work—from Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein—and how divergent their interpretations have been, Ozawa’s performance seemed to capture and tie together some of their most effective moments...
...Explanations and excuses aside, there are some very disturbing facts here. More people voted for the extreme rightwing candidates Le Pen and Bruno Megret (who broke away from Le Pen's national front after a personality clash with the leader) than for the sitting president. That can't simply be written off as a protest vote. There's an extreme-right, xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment that is no longer shy of expressing itself in mainstream French politics...
...Bruno Quenioux, a manager at Galeries Lafayette's Le Chênevert, says the wine and food departments have already benefited from the six-month-old restaurant. "We have a six-page wine list, so I make a point of encouraging clients to try a new wine. Usually they buy it before leaving the store," he says. "The menu is seasonal with only the freshest ingredients from our Food Hall, so people want to take the ingredients home and try to make it themselves...
...Korea/Japan 2002, French gaffer Roger Lemerre will be joined - in battle - by compatriot coaches Henri Michel (Tunisia), Bruno Metsu (Senegal) and Philippe Troussier (co-host Japan). These men are part of a long list of French managers whose personal success and exposure to France's remarkable player-development program won them jobs guiding national teams, professional clubs - and occasionally, as in Troussier's case, improving the entire structure of a country's soccer system. Troussier's three-year drive to recast the Japan Football Association a la français has already begun to bear fruit: under the 46-year...