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...mind as in the body. Which makes the love scene in the title story of his latest collection of short fiction, Every Move You Make (Chatto & Windus; 244 pages), something of a breakthrough. Here the writerly restraint-as book editor Jo conjoins with the ultimately unknowable Sydney house-builder Mitchell Maze-should be studied by every budding Mills & Boon author: "For a moment he entirely yielded, and she felt, in his sudden cry, and in the completeness afterwards with which he sank into her arms, that she had been allowed into a place that in every other circumstance he kept...
...personalities, most of whom see all things worth doing as a stepping-stone in the road whose ultimate destination is success. Whether it be studying, digging wells in Tanzania, or partying like a rock star, many Harvard students tend to see each and every action as a resume-builder or a means to some impressive...
...proportion of the workforce as in France - thanks in part to a generous system of maternity support, which has also given France Europe's second highest fertility rate, behind only Ireland. Women run France's Defense Ministry, one of its most prestigious math programs, the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants, the national theater and the employers' federation (see Leading Ladies). With all that - plus an abiding conceit that it epitomizes the avant-garde - France should have been among the first countries to see a woman in its highest political office. Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister of Britain...
...Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI). Banks snap up her students, who have mastered the probability equations that hedge funds need to model portfolios. Anne Lauvergeon CEO, Areva Group A former Mitterrand acolyte, she negotiated the 2001 merger of state-owned firms to create the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants. Reappointed this summer for five more years, she vows to make nukes a clean, safe choice for the post-oil future. Muriel Mayette Head Of La Comedie-Francaise Last month she became administrator general of the prestigious state theater, a male redoubt since its founding...
...their part, the immigration service is trying to strike fear into contractors that serve as a buffer between workers and large companies. In April, the immigration service brought indictments against two temporary-labor companies in Canton, Ohio, a home-builder in Kentucky, and two other Kentucky companies, one of which supplied workers to Holiday Inn and other hotels...