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...Renault's Flavio Briatore, was barred from the sport for life after the FIA determined that he had ordered one of his drivers to crash in a 2008 race to help out Renault's other driver - Alonso, in this case. Briatore is still fighting the ban. (In January, a French court overturned it; the FIA is appealing that decision.) "At times it felt like the whole thing was imploding," says former F1 driver Mark Blundell, now owner of 2MB Sports Management. "I saw a lot of things I didn't like, and it hurt." (Read: "A Record Fine for Formula...
Other groups have laid down specific rules that keep them from working too closely with certain governments or rebel groups. Among the most prominent is Doctors Without Borders. The French arm of that group was, in fact, expelled from Ethiopia during the famine in the 1980s when it criticized the government for forcibly moving some of the population and manipulating aid. The group now makes a point of delivering as much direct aid to those in need as possible, rather than working through governments or what it calls "armed actors." This week, it went after NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh...
...Indeed, one French executive of an international group, who asked not to be named because he formerly worked as a French diplomat, says the main problem with the refueling-plane bidding process was the Pentagon's pretense that the work was up for grabs in the first place. "All nations - France included - make bilateral procurement deals without tendering bids, so what's really annoying about this case is that EADS was led to think it had a chance when the work was going to go to Boeing no matter what happened," the executive says...
This theme is most apparent in two of Bhabha’s favorite items. In a corner between two panel windows is a print by French artist Leger depicting a woman with her hand over her head, and right underneath is a piece of an Indian sculpture of a woman also with her hand over her head. Although both items are of completely different time periods, cultures, and media, they echo each other for a distinct effect...
...four girls she’d never met (after being told that it sounded like “Jersey Shore,” she says, “That’s exactly what it was. Well, no, except for the guido part. It was actually a bunch of French Canadians, who I don’t want to offend...