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...after the right's rout at the polls, but Chirac opted to renominate him and install Nicolas Sarkozy, the most ambitious figure on the French right, as Economics, Finance and Industry Minister. Except for Borloo, a politically unclassifiable figure with no standing in the ruling party, Chirac was largely content to reshuffle loyal followers. Dominique de Villepin moves to the Interior Ministry from foreign affairs, where he has been replaced by European Commissioner Michel Barnier. The very sameness in the Cabinet puts the incandescent Borloo center stage, but it could also hamper him. Sarkozy, burdened with a huge budget deficit...
Listening to Nelms and Gould, you begin to wonder if they see no limits. Nelms laughs: of course there are limits, and yes, they're imposed by age. But is Gould finally content? She is distant, then suddenly alert, almost defiant. "People like happy endings," she says. "I have periods of incredible frustration and confusion, and periods of great satisfaction. This is not a linear journey where I've arrived...
...focus on the stories behind the walls," says Michel Sitruk, head of business development for Soundwalk. "We want to give a sense of the pulse of a neighborhood." Besides selling its CDs through book retailers, the company has made a deal with download site Audible.com the spoken-word audio content provider for iTunes. Now you can immerse yourself in the sounds of Chinatown without leaving Kansas...
...racked up a 9-1-1 mark since then, or how Harvard had gone undefeated in the ECAC tournament. He wasn’t even watching the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on ESPN2 to find out whom and where his team would play next. Instead, Reilly was totally content to spend a relaxing day with his family...
Walsh’s voice, both content and fatigued at this revelation, speaks the truth. His mixed bag of base-ballers range from the humble to the showy, the laid-back to the lay-it-out. They come from a list of locales so wide and varied that it might make Howard Dean antsy. Try blending this kind of mixture in a sport like baseball—distinct positions, varied roles and all—and forging a team out of spare parts turns out to be a more tricky proposition than you might think...