Word: libbing
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...March, French aviation firm Dassault bought an 82% share in conservative Le Figaro. Last week Libération, the feisty left-leaning tabloid daily, was getting the eye from Edouard de Rothschild, scion of the banking family. The real acid test will come, however, with Le Monde, which is seeking €50 million in new investment and is in talks with defense and media conglomerate Lagardère, as well as Madrid's daily El País. If it gets the new funds, Le Monde will have to pay for layoff packages for about 90 employees, work down...
...seat and nearly lost another - not to the opposition Conservatives, but to the antiwar Liberal Democrats. The victorious Liberal Democrat candidate, Parmjit Singh Gill, said his constituency had "spoken for the people of Britain. Their message is that the Prime Minister has abused and lost their trust." But the Lib Dems have no chance of winning the general election expected next year, which explains why one Labour strategist, though hardly exuberant, says "the result means we have won the next election." Few in Westminster disagree. Still, Blair's stiletto wounds may continue to bleed. He has promoted Scarlett to head...
...wonder then that Bush remains so out of touch with reality—and so willing to dismiss the many critics who raise valid concerns domestically and abroad. With any luck, voters will send him a message that hits a lot harder than an electronic political Mad Lib this November...
...blossom finally opens its petals to the sky. On the third anniversary of his accident, his mother, Marie Humbert, sat beside his hospital bed as she always had. Then she injected him with a cocktail of barbiturates. "I did it," she told a doctor, according to the French newspaper Libération. But she hadn't done it. The dose left Vincent in a coma, but failed to kill him. Within hours, the police had arrested her, and doctors had hooked her son up to artificial life support. A three-year nightmare had become darker still...
...details of the new constitution must be hammered out and the E.U.'s tattered relations with the United States need patching up. Is Berlusconi - who has a self-confessed "major superiority complex" - the man to get the job done? Diplomats worry that his headstrong style and taste for ad-lib ("We must be aware of the superiority of [Western] civilization" he said after 9/11) will kick up dust. And some influential academics even question whether, thanks to Berlusconi, Italy itself would qualify for E.U. membership if it were applying today. The E.U. requirement that a candidate country have a free...