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...discernible impact on investment and jobs. Legislation that took hold in October allowing companies and workers to step around the legal 35-hour work-week limit hasn't done much to stiffen French work habits. And though his showdown in November with militant unions and striking transport workers over generous special pensions was hailed as an unprecedented success, Sarkozy still hasn't produced a final agreement to end that conflict, which could flame anew when talks on tightening general retirement schemes open this spring...
...actors] need playmates, otherwise we're just playing with ourselves - and I've worked with some people who prefer to do that." Tilda Swinton won best supporting actress for her role in Michael Clayton and promised to give the award to her agent (wonder if she'll be as generous if she wins an Oscar). And the producers of Atonement now have another best picture statue to keep next to their Golden Globe...
...Korea Institute over a five-year period. The grants will be used to fund the Early Korea Project, an interdisciplinary inquiry into the premodern history of the Korean Peninsula. The aims of the Early Korea Project are admirable, and we applaud the Northeast Asian History Foundation for its generous and much-needed financial donation. While the study of premodern Korean history has been sidelined by much larger and better-funded inquiries into Chinese and Japanese history for many years, a new focus on the early years of Korean civilization offers the potential to not only discover the rich and vibrant...
...first met and worked with the great photojoumalist Diana Walker when I covered my first presidential campaign in 1988. We were following Michael Dukakis, and she was generous enough to show a novice where to sit on the bus and how not to be the last person to get one's bags from the campaign plane. She also helped show me how to see--to look for the things that others don't notice...
...number two was Catherine Zeta Jones. Those guys were busy with something else once they found out it wasn’t the Hasty Pudding, just the Lampoon,” Davenport said. “We went down the list, we got to Paris, and it was very generous of her to come...