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...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 politics," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the polling firm CSA-Opinions. "People see her as out to solve problems, while so many others, most of them men, are stuck in the fog of ideology." That's a sense that has taken hold not just in the wider public, but among activists. Socialist Party membership rolls have almost doubled since...
...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 plants. Reappointed this summer for five more years, she vows to make nukes a clean, safe choice for the post-oil future. Muriel Mayette Head Of La Comedie-Francaise Last month she became administrator general of the prestigious state theater, a male...
...study is being run by Neurosense, an Oxford-based consulting firm that's a leader in the fast-growing industry called neuromarketing. Neuromarketing uses the techniques and technologies of neuroscience - particularly FMRI scanners - to better understand how our brains react to advertising, brands and products, reactions that mostly occur subconsciously. This burgeoning ability to peer inside the black box of the brain to see how it processes images and messages and reaches decisions potentially gives marketeers a new tool that can be used to fine-tune ads and marketing campaigns, bolster or extend brands, or design better products...
...Just because I wear a suit, they prejudge me," said the elder Cronin, the managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm, and a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers...
...Graham may yet back down - he has been a key ally for the Administration on other controversial matters of detention in the past - but for now he's standing firm. "If you try to create political winners and losers this year then I think you've let those men and women on the front line of this war in the military and other agencies down," he says. "Politics will not protect us. 'Bad votes' will not protect us. What will protect us is an interrogation system that is constitutional and effective...