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...halt in May and June. And leading members of his own party are slamming his economic and social policies for being everything from too liberal to insufficiently ambitious. But since this is France, which has so often proved itself impervious to reform, fierce opposition like that means Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin must be doing something right. He certainly thinks so. "What we've done is enormous! Enormous!" Raffarin exclaimed in an interview with Time at his office in the Hôtel Matignon in Paris' seventh arrondissement. But, he added, "We have to be attentive to the nervous nature...
...resonance by political commentator Nicolas Baverez, whose best-selling book France Is Falling has turned national decline into the No. 1 topic among the commentariat. Baverez says the shocking results of the first round of presidential elections in April 2002 - when French voters put far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen into a runoff with Chirac - amounted to "a national cry of distress." The massive mandate for Chirac in the second round, bolstered by parliamentary elections in June 2002 that gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes...
...agreed to merge with Air France. Both sides talked up the €784 million deal as an overdue consolidation of European airlines and promised it would create "substantial value for shareholders." Just how it might do so left investors and civil-aviation experts scratching their heads. Air France CEO Jean-Cyril Spinetta and KLM chief Leo van Wijk said the two firms won't cut staff and will operate as before from their hubs, Charles de Gaulle in Paris and Amsterdam's Schiphol. And to retain KLM's international traffic rights, they've had to create a holding company that...
...Warburton’s work for the Harvard Lampoon—he was the humor magazine’s president in 1999—that caught the attention of Simpsons executive producer and former Lampoon vice-president Al Jean ’81. He began working for the show during the winter...
Despite the intimidating prospect of working with the likes of Jean and other seasoned veterans whose collective resume includes shows like Saturday Night Live and Married With Children, Warburton says that he feels little pressure...