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As he announced the launch of a $100 million advocacy campaign to promote and defend "the free enterprise system" two weeks ago, Chamber of Commerce CEO Thomas Donohue, 72, maintained that his new initiative was not "a campaign against anyone" or "about any piece of legislation." At the same time...
Plopping down next to a couple who were already engaged in a conversation, FlyBy did what we do best: eavesdrop. The guy was asking the girl what had motivated her to attend the event. “Oh, my friend pressured me into it,” she said. Funny...
The fighting literally hangs from cliffs and rocky promontories. White smoke rises from a village across a deep gorge. The screeching whistle of mortar fire echoes in the expansive valley as troops target militants in a village five miles away. Cobra helicopter gunships buzz overhead. Two weeks into its ambitious...
But there's also a sentiment that many members of France's political class may wind up discredited if too many old corruption cases are dredged up now. Earlier this week, several public figures - including former Interior Minister and Chirac confidant Charles Pasqua and Jean-Christophe Mitterrand, son of former...
Why the collective shrugging in France at the charges? Part of the reason may be that other illegal political funding schemes were commonplace in France from the 1970s to the early 1990s when a series of laws were passed to crack down on the practice. The French also tend to...