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...Similarly, Sarkozy's decision earlier this year to ban commercials from state television Channels, provoked an outcry, since the biggest expected beneficiary of the resulting advertising windfall will be private station TF1 - whose owner, Martin Bouygues, was best man at Sarkozy's wedding to former wife Cécilia. Opponents also claim Sarkozy has used his friendship with Bouygues - and one with another media mogul the president has called "my brother" - to direct the alleged nomination of sympathetic journalists into important editorial positions as a means of shaping friendly political coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy vs. the Corsicans | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

...When you quit smoking, the inflammation in the airways goes down. The little hair-like projections in the airways that we call cilia - which are paralyzed by smoke - begin to work again. So the lungs will get better in weeks to months. Breathing will get better. Exercise capacity will get better. Paradoxically, people find that they cough a little more right after they stop smoking, but that's natural. That's the lungs cleaning themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is the Damage from Smoking Permanent? | 7/1/2008 | See Source »

...Support eroded first among older, traditional conservatives repelled by Sarkozy's private life: his unabashed relish for wealth and famous friends; his public anguish over and finally divorce from his wife Cécilia; and his courtship of and, less than four months later, marriage to former top model Carla Bruni. But the latest polls show the leading cause of voter complaint to be Sarkozy's failure to deliver on the reforms he hyped to the heavens during his first six months in office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sharp Spur of Adversity | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...just two months ago that the French media shrugged off their curiosity about President Nicolas Sarkozy's divorce from his wife Cécilia, and said they would not pry into the private life of their first-ever single President, nor care which women he chose to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarkozy and the Supermodel | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...something about Cécilia, I would not do so here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Nov. 12, 2007 | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

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