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...French-Dutch Air France-KLM was the only bidder left in an auction that began 15 months ago when Italy's Economy Ministry put its 49.9% of the debt-saddled company on the auction block. Air France Chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta pulled out after Alitalia union representatives arrived at the table with brand new 11th hour terms after all sides had worked for weeks on a standing framework that included layoffs of around 2,100 and the closing of Alitalia's cargo division. The talks, of course, collapsed...
...press release, Faust will be joined on the commencement stage by Paquito D’Rivera, a Cuban musician; Lila R. Gleitman, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania; Bert W. O’Malley, a professor of molecular and cellular biology at Baylor College of Medicine; Cyril Ramaphosa, the former secretary general of the African National Congress; and Neil deGrasse Tyson ’80, a director at the American Museum of Natural History...
...wife, Graca Machel, who is a U.N. expert on humanitarian issues as well as a former First Lady of Mozambique, has flown in to help bring the parties together. Former Tanzanian President Benjamin Mpaka is here, Ghana's President John Kufuor came and went, and South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa, a businessman who helped negotiate an end to apartheid, is expected to arrive shortly...
...Great War did not improve matters. The writer Cyril Connolly—cheery fellow this one—wrote to his friend that he was “tired of the country...I do feel it is a dying civilization—decadent, but in such a damned dull way—going stuffy and comatose instead of collapsing beautifully like France.” Similarly, returning from India in 1922, E.M. Forster described post-war England with an oriental flourish—as “a person who has folded her hands and stands waiting...
...more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man. But while Cyril Wong relishes waving "a purple flag" in socially conservative faces, his work expands beyond simple sexuality - being "just a gay poet," as he puts it - to embrace themes of love, alienation and human relationships of all kinds. His latest volume of verse, Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light, is due to be published this month, hopefully to burnish further the international reputation that the previous five collections have established...