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Uemura, who died of acute pneumonia on Dec. 29 in Tokyo at the age of 79, sold controlling interest in his self-named brand to the French cosmetics giant L'Oreal for an undisclosed but enormous sum in 2003. But he continued to be the driving creative force behind the company. Until recently, Uemura twice-a-year personally demonstrated his makeup skills in public, showing off the latest in his Mode Makeup collections in Tokyo, London and sometimes New York City...
Operation "Lookit Me!" may have just hit a wall. Ever since French President Nicolas Sarkozy took office in May, leaked media reports on his private life have increasingly overshadowed political news that was often less uplifting. But French pundits and pollsters are now saying that if that preference for soft news over hard has been orchestrated by the Elysée, it is beginning to backfire. New opinion polls are showing serious erosion in Sarkozy's support - and displeasure with the overexposure of his private life - just when the news splashes that he plans to wed former super-model Carla...
...Despite his campaign promise to become "the purchasing-power President" Sarkozy has thus far been unable to do much to address the primary concern of French citizens that they need more money in the face of higher prices. Economy Minister Christine Lagarde has announced that inflation in 2008 will probably exceed 2% - higher, in any case, than the government forecast of 1.6%, due to escalating prices of oil and foodstuffs. Laws passed to allow employees and businesses to sidestep France's 35-hour workweek limitation and heed Sarkozy's call to "work more to earn more" have largely been ignored...
...People were ready to accept Sarkozy's style as symbolic of individual success, fame, and fortune so long as it held the promise of being available to everyone," Rozès explains. "The context has changed. The French are worried about the future, and this presidential style now seems out of order." All of which leaves Sarkozy's with a particularly vexing problem: how does a sitting President of France marry a famous beauty without making it into a really big deal...
...ideals on which they rest. 75 percent of American adults are unambiguously proud to be Americans, and 98 percent of American youth claim to be. And 81 percent of American youth expressed a desire to do something to serve their country, as opposed to 55 percent of French or 46 percent of British youth , according to sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset...