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...ground troops. If Sarkozy wins next May, she has the clout in the party to assure her a top post in his government. Nicole El Karoui Math Professor Few postgraduate degrees have the cachet of one earned under her aegis at the Ecole Polytechnique or the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris VI). Banks snap up her students, who have mastered the probability equations that hedge funds need to model portfolios. Anne Lauvergeon CEO, Areva Group A former Mitterrand acolyte, she negotiated the 2001 merger of state-owned firms to create the world's biggest builder of nuclear power...
...Select results from this TIME/Discovery Channel poll appear in this week?s issue of TIME, on newsstands Monday. For additional results from this poll, tune in to Ted Koppel?s premiere on the Discovery Channel. Koppel on Discovery ? The Price of Security will air from 8-11 p.m. ET on Sunday, Sept. 10. Click here for more information on Koppel?s premiere...
...shaped fashion from 1937, when he opened his Paris atelier, until 1968, when he abruptly closed it. The designer's rigorous spirit has always hovered over runways, but thanks to "Balenciaga Paris," a sweeping retrospective of his work that just opened at Paris' Musée de la Mode et du Textile, his influence is once again in midfield...
...course, TLC did not invent the idea of inspiration as a performance, any more than Runway, Top Chef et al. transformed design, cooking and so on into entertainment. Isaac Mizrahi, Emeril Lagasse and Martha Stewart turned their fields into reality TV long before reality TV did, making their personae inseparable from their work. Says Kara Janx, who finished fourth on last season's Runway: Celebrity "is part and parcel of being a designer today. When people know the person behind the brand, they become invested in it." That said, she adds, "I want to die as a good designer...
...TROPEZ: When director Roger Vadim set the racy 1956 Brigitte Bardot movie Et Dieu Cr?a la Femme (And God Created Woman) in the coastal town of St.-Tropez, he helped transform the French fishing port into a magnet for the jet set. These days, just about everyone else is drawn to "St. Trop" (around 100,000 visitors swarm the town each day in high summer)?but not during the fall, when hotels like the 19th century Ch?teau de la Messardi?re offer palatial rooms at almost half the peak-season rate. You'll also enjoy crowd-free beaches, no-hassle dinner...