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...office--that since January has operated largely on the principle that the less information given the press, the better. Since the Jeffords crisis, however, Hughes' team has become more helpful--both to reporters and to Republican staff on Capitol Hill. And the team has begun to rethink its habit of placing Bush in tightly controlled events designed to make him look presidential...
...mustached man of 50 with the comedy writer's congenital air of melancholy, like a sensitive spaniel; he tends to be the spokesman for the team. Yorkin, 46, who concentrates on being executive producer of "Sanford" at NBC, is a beefy, genial soul with a flushed face and a habit of punctuating his speech with a stabbing thumb that one senses could easily become a fist. Both men, in their divergent styles, bear down hard on their staffs to achieve gloss and precision that have become characteristic or Yorkin and Lear productions...
...film. With Yorkin it is "Start the Revolution Without Me," a 1970 farce about the French Revolution that he produced and directed. With Lear it is "Cold Turkey," a 1971 satire in which he directed his own script about an Iowa town that collectively kicks the smoking habit. Erratic but lively and intriguing, both works were just slightly out of sync with the shifting rhythms of public taste that Yorkin and Lear's TV shows have always caught so uncannily...
...That disregard for the Irish result seemed high-handed, since to be binding, the treaty must be ratified by every E.U. country. Only after that can the union admit new members, which was the treaty's main selling point. But disregarding inconvenient facts has become a habit in Europe, where leaders paint a rosy picture of "irreversible" integration and progress that seems untethered to the messy, awkward reality of existing institutions. Privately, many senior E.U. leaders worry about its "democratic deficit" and institutional sclerosis. Even in public, European Commission President Romano Prodi said, "I wasn't enthusiastic the morning after...
...Provence Promotion agency, which leads Marseilles' drive to bring high-tech and other fast-growing businesses to the area. The effort is paying off. Last year Marseilles and its region led the nation in foreign investment for the first time - even outdistancing its traditional rival, the capital. "The habit of Paris luring the best companies and skilled workers out of the provinces is reversing," Guistini says...