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...synchronizing swimming styles is easier said than done. Despite being the global cheerleader for a united response to the crisis, French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday announced that France would be creating its own national sovereign fund to buy stocks in troubled private companies. On Tuesday, Germany had rejected Sarkozy's call to create a European-wide sovereign fund that could prevent Europeans waking up "to find European companies belong to non-European capital, bought when share prices were at their lowest point". Sarkozy also wants governments in countries that use the euro to have greater powers to manage...
Meanwhile, reports surfaced that Cerberus might be willing to sell a 20% stake in Chrysler to Renault/Nissan. Any kind of agreement with Renault/Nissan will mean Chrysler has come full circle over 21 years. In 1987 it was Chrysler that acquired the American Motors Corp. from the struggling French automaker. Chrysler employees, reeling ever since Daimler AG cut them loose last summer, are now utterly demoralized as they await their fate, according to sources inside the company...
...commercial shipping off the Horn of Africa, when it arrested nine of them at sea during a raid near the Gulf of Aden. But the roots of Somalia's piracy problem lie in the breakdown of state authority on land, which is why many questioned just how effective the French Naval action - or the NATO patrols due to begin in the coming days - will be in curbing the pirates. The nine nabbed by the French, after all, were stripped of their weapons and then handed over to the very Somali authorities who have failed to keep them under control...
...wide-brimmed hat and large black sunglasses that recall Jackie Kennedy, displays a cold yet alluring ambivalence toward her piggish new lover. They exchange brief words, casual affections, but barely understand one another—Bardot’s character speaks no English, Palance’s hardly any French. Godard cuts back and forth between the ill-conceived new couple and Camille’s jilted screenwriter husband Paul, played by Michel Piccoli, as he reads her farewell letter. As the pair climbs into Jeremy’s fire-engine-red Alpha Romeo and peel away, the camera pans...
...attended the High School of Music and Art as well as the Manhattan School of Music. Both, he says, were among the most influential experiences in his life. His formal education in music did not end there, however, as Yannatos went on to study composition with the likes of French composer Nadia Boulanger and Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola and conducting with William Steinberg and Leonard Bernstein...