Word: jeaned
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...Harvard Concert Commission is currently courting a list of 26 groups including Franz Ferdinand, Wyclef Jean, and George Clinton. The list is subject to change during the bidding period...
...Netherlands - where disenchantment with the E.U. is on the rise - quickly set June 1 for its referendum. The French are also considering advancing their planned ballot from June to May. "The Spanish people have sent a message of confidence in the future of Europe," crowed French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, leader of the country's yes camp. "European democracy is on the march." Perhaps, but with every small step forward, the risk grows of a giant step back. To come into force, the constitution must be ratified by all 25 member states, nine of which will follow Spain...
...become an immortal diva, it wasn't mandatory to die young, but it couldn't hurt. Jean Harlow succumbed to kidney disease at 26, after starring for Þve years as MGM's cheekiest blond. In this 1933 ensemble comedy, Harlow, billed fourth, steals the show as Wallace Beery's conniving wife. An affront to the society swells she meets, she was catnip to amass audience who saw her as their stand-in, with a sailor's mouth and a heart of the purest brass...
...across the Continent to tackle some persistent problems, including a lack of labor mobility and unsustainable health-care and pension systems. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has introduced a slew of new measures designed to create jobs, including unpopular cutbacks in unemployment benefits. In France, the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin has triggered protests by changing the law to allow employees to work more than 35 hours a week and has begun revamping the system of state-funded medical benefits. "One of the big issues is that we are no longer in the analysis, or paralysis-through-analysis, phase...
...That may have had something to do with its improbable steel ridgeback seam, several inches high, like a Mohawk haircut that bisects the car lengthwise, coursing along the hood, over the bulbous roof and down the steep slope of its trunk. A pure aesthetic flourish on the part of Jean Bugatti, son of company founder Ettore, the riveted seam gives the car a hand-sewn look. It also removes it so completely from the realm of the familiar as to make the Atlantic Coupe something close to a Surrealist object...