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Nouveau Riche If you ask Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, the crusty chief curator of the Louvre's sculpture department, what has changed in the Loyrette era, she'll grumble a bit about the heavier load of administration that comes the way of the museum's seven departments. She's also not convinced that appointing department heads for just three years at a time is a smart move. Until Loyrette came along, they were appointed for life. "Five years would be better. You can't get anything done in three," says Bresc-Bautier, who was appointed by Loyrette after...
...last fall (1,000 are to be in place by the end of 2005). The government also funded a series of chilling anti-speeding commercials aired last year - including radio spots consisting simply of graveside eulogies - designed to scare drivers into behaving. But the key to the success, argues Geneviève Jurgensen of the League Against Road Violence, is enforcement. "People won't heed the law unless there is a real probability of getting caught," she says. Now there's an argument to keep those speed cameras rolling...