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...approach to an electorate disenchanted with France's élitist and sclerotic political culture. She stays away from the abstract nouns beloved of French intellectuals, and makes a very public point of listening instead to voters' concerns, often sent to her heavily-frequented website called, in sturdily nonideological fashion, Desires for the Future. Cavalierly breaching party doctrine, she advocates a tougher line on delinquents, wants to loosen widely circumvented rules requiring students to attend schools in their neighborhoods, and has even criticized the 35-hour workweek. "She is popular because she's a woman who has a nondoctrinaire stance toward...
...sharper picture of where we stand. The U.S. routinely collects minutely detailed information to gauge the vitality of its economy. This new index is the beginning of an effort to do the same for its civic life. With this data, we can begin to seriously debate and ultimately fashion robust policies to fix our communal machinery. Local groups can tap it to build awareness, and national service programs, such as AmeriCorps, can use it to hone recruiting. With just a little focus and effort, our civic health can change course...
...people in Hollywood's creative community who quite liked him, if only because he rarely spoke with forked tongue). The movie plays him as a complaisant cuckold, allowing his wife her affair and the money to subsidize her lover's needs. Mannix seems to have loved her in his fashion, and so long as Reeves treated her well, he remained quiescent. It is only after their affair ended and she became miserable, that Mannix's wrath was aroused and it becomes possible to imagine him dispatching hit men to avenge...
...dream childhood that would handily prepare a bright youngster for the intellectual rigors of life, right? Not really, writes Quart, now 34, in her new book, Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child (Penguin Press). "Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure." Quart is unflinchingly honest about her unusual childhood experience. "My father would have bristled at the notion that he was an overbearing puppet master. If I sat absolutely quietly and wrote lyrical verse about tree-tops, I was peachy...
Esprit is tapping into a new trend in apparel retailing called fast fashion that has been exemplified by H&M. Shoppers buy clothing more frequently and wear each item less often, in part because the prices are low. Esprit now replaces its clothing lines almost entirely each month. Not only does that give shoppers more new items to purchase each year, but it also decreases Esprit's risk. If one trend flops, a new one hits the stores a month later...