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...have to go back decades to see a first-round result like Sarkozy's. If he's a 'divider,' he's done pretty well." Royal, meanwhile, desperately needs to entice Bayrou's voters if she's to close the 5% gap between her and Sarkozy. She will no doubt try to make the most of her softer image, which may seem particularly welcome to voters wary of Sarkozy's daunting and sometimes disconcerting intensity. She will also need to ramp up her courtship of Bayrou's lieutenants, which has included a promise to assign ministerial posts to prospective allies from...
...best league is still good," says Chris Lee, head of Professional Sports Business at Barclays, which acts as banker for half of the Premier League's clubs. "Not all clubs are making a profit, but there's not so much of an excuse now." Profitability would no doubt be helped if clubs could bring wages under control. Over the past decade, according to Deloitte, Premier League wages rose an average of 20% a year. Top earners like Chelsea's Michael Ballack and Thierry Henry of Arsenal reportedly pocket around $12.5 million each year. But in 2004-05, for the first...
...kibbutzniks were seen as the new breed of Israeli. They discarded Europe's deathly pallor and became bronzed, idealistic pioneers. Degania, which had been founded in 1910 by 12 Jews escaping Russian persecution, was the ideal. Its members were beset by malaria, cattle thieves and bouts of self-doubt. Yet they greened the stony hills with citrus groves. At night in the communal dining hall they argued passionately over the grand themes of the late 20th century: the individual vs. the group, women's rights, capitalism vs. socialism, religion. (It wasn't until last year that the kibbutzniks of Degania...
Smith was not, in other words, a man much given to self-doubt by the time he headed for America. At 27, he was ready to put the lessons of hard experience to good use and had little respect for authority he deemed inept or unearned. His open contempt for those he called "our ignorant transporters" landed Smith in the brig, or some such warren of restraint, where he spent one of the most historic voyages in history as the first inmate of record in English America...
Those lines comprise the most fawning reference to a female in the voluminous collection of Smith's lifetime of writings. He had good reason to find her extraordinary. For one thing, she saved him from execution by her father. Some historians doubt that--Smith is the only historical source for the tale--but the story has never been credibly disputed. What is less well known is that she saved the Englishman a second time, risking her life to sneak through a darkened forest alone to warn Smith of imminent ambush, and that she continued to find ways to help...