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...some of its players - will leap forward tremendously," says Rob Mason, managing director of SBI, the British sponsorship consultants. That grating sound you hear is the gnashing of Australian teeth. Banking On A Happy Ending This week, time may finally run out for French billionaire François Pinault, the French government and some other top executives in their decade-long legal fight with U.S. prosecutors over Crédit Lyonnais. In the early 1990s, when the then-state-owned French bank acquired California insurer Executive Life, it allegedly did so in breach of U.S. law forbidding foreign banks from...
About twenty undergraduates, law students, and students from the Kennedy School of Government attended the meeting, as did IOP fellow and former Lt. Governor of Alaska Fran Ulmer...
Look at the NFL and the Cowboys, the so-called America’s Team that battled with a fading San Fran dynasty. Dallas had legions of fans in every city, all wearing an Aikman, Smith or Irvin jerseys. The ’Boys also enraged many a fan during the 90s–but there’s no denying that people tuned in hoping they would lose...
...autumn will the government tackle a major reform of France's free-spending health-insurance system, which is bleeding some j10 billion a year. And when it came to repealing the 35-hour week altogether, Raffarin demurred. "We can't do everything the first year," explains Raffarin aide Jean-François Cirelli. He acknowledges that the government's public-pension reform won't go even halfway to bridging the estimated j43 billion funding chasm that will open between now and 2020. Now, though, both private and public employees will have to work longer to get a full pension...
...built a cooperative international order that promoted American interests by serving those of others. Leadership was not grabbed, but earned. And the Europeans were stakeholders rather than, as Don Rumsfeld would now have it, foot soldiers in changing "coalitions of the willing." Why maximize nuisance value à la française if you can use your voting stock? Can Bush, Schröder and Chirac change perspective - or will it be back to the future of 19th century power politics? In those days, Lord Palmerston famously proclaimed: "We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies;" only...