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...looks a mess - funny, in the context of the film; not so, given Wilson's hospitalization a week ago for what was described as a slashed-wrist suicide attempt. The actor was released Saturday and is in his Santa Monica home, People.com reported, under 24-hour watch by friends and family, instead of on the red carpet in Venice...
...Aides billed the six-hour stop as a fact-finding mission for the President, saying Bush wanted to see for himself what was happening in Iraq, since it will be his responsibility to make the final call about troop levels. "This gives the president an opportunity first hand to hear from people directly involved and make his own assessments at the same time," said National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley on board Air Force One Sunday night...
...Chavez announcement that most flabbergasted the international media in a month of strange goings-on was his proclamation that Venezuela will move its time zone back by a half hour, starting in the third week of September. The government expects the measure to give Venezuelans a more equitable distribution of sunlight and, in the words of science and technology minister Hector Navarro, help "organize the country and social life in a more rational manner." Upon hearing the proclamation, a U.S. newspaper suggested recent headlines made the Caracas press read like The Onion, and drew comparisons between Venezuela and Woody Allen...
...France has lower growth than other [nations)], it's because we work less," scolded Sarkozy, who promised to further roll back the nation's 35 hour work week - an institution he denounced as an "immense economic mistake" in keeping with the economically sedative labor policies of the left. Sarkozy's Thursday address to France's main employers' organization, Medef, was a tour de force fusing policy objectives with performance art, with Sarko alternately playing stand-up comic and revival-meeting preacher. Playing to a friendly crowd, Sarkozy vowed to further lower taxes, reduce companies' salary-linked labor costs, cut thousands...
...these measures would obviously please the assembled business leaders, Sarkozy made it clear he also expected effort from them in return. Increased productivity anticipated by limbering up the work week should bring salary increases in order to boost French purchasing power. "Ever since the introduction of the 35-hour week, we've heard discussion about purchasing power, not about salaries," Sarkozy said - rebuffing the business leaders' frequent retort that purchasing power is mostly an old union chestnut to justify demands for pay hikes. "Explaining there's no problem of purchasing power in France is trying to pull the public...