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...heavily indebted and still majority owned by the state. It has moved to become more international, and now sells more autos outside Europe than it does in France. Its latest model - the ?5,000 Logan, built in low-cost Romania - is aimed at the aspiring middle classes across the globe. Renault recently announced its earnings for 2004: record net income, operating profits up 72% and profit margins at almost 6% of sales - more than double Ford...
Sitting down to a scrambled-egg breakfast at the Shutters on the Beach hotel in Santa Monica, Calif., McShane, 62, has the happy air of a man who has got away with something. The British character actor just won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV drama, and though in real life he's a grandpa and, for 20 years now, a teetotaler, he betrays a bit of his character's roguish confidence. As soon as he landed the role, he says, he bought a house just down the coast. "I had a feeling it would...
...Bush's Brave Words Can columnist Joe Klein really be so naive as to believe the rhetoric in Bush's Inauguration speech about bringing freedom to the world [Jan. 31]? If spreading liberty around the globe were an authentic goal of this Administration, it would not rely on alliances with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. James MacKinnon Houston...
...thought that box of chocolates was sweet. Putting us all to shame, a Winthrop senior arranged a Valentine’s Day treasure hunt for her beau: a gift-giving odyssey through the fair Square. The quest included the Scylla and Charybdis of romantic tchotchkes: the Coop and Globe Bookstore, where tourists and snobs bond over remainder copies of Let’s Go!. Visits to Cardullo’s and other Square standards followed...
Besides their graying hair, other factors also distinguish this crowd from the average Harvard student. Colin Nickerson, a foreign correspondent for The Boston Globe who is taking courses through a fellowship, says he enrolls in science courses for his own enjoyment...