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...rise of Latham during an election year has been that the one-time policy wonk has opted for slogans rather than details, symbols instead of costed measures. We've heard about Latham's "ladder of opportunity," but what kind of tax reform will secure the rungs? Although this policy-lite approach seems not to have hurt Latham's showing in opinion polls, it won't be tolerated in the biggest poll...
...violence or vandalism that are prosecuted reach the courts, they claim, the courts don't take their concerns seriously. They are rankled, for instance, over an August administrative appeals court ruling to reinstate two 11-year-old boys who had hit and insulted a Jewish classmate at Paris' élite Lycée Montaigne. "Now it's the victim who has to change schools," as Rabbi Claude Zaffran puts...
...staff. "Sechin is not just Putin's sounding board," says the cabinet official. "Sechin is part of his brain cells." Sechin's appointment, critics say, is another step in the redistribution of power and wealth from the Yeltsin-era "Family" - the oligarchs of the 1990s - to the Siloviki élite. If they're right, the next step will be a Rosneft victory in the race to snap up Yukos assets. Meanwhile, the ties among Moscow's new élite grow ever closer. Last year, Sechin's daughter Inga married an FSB school cadet named Dmitri Ustinov. The cadet's father...
...shut it down." Pétanque's evolution from leisure activity to serious sport has produced other growing pains, too. Some top players are suspected of seeking an advantage through performance-enhancing substances stronger than pastis. Random anti-doping tests are now common. "It's required for all élite sports, and the only infraction detected thus far was for cannabis a younger player had smoked the night before," chuckles Gaffet. Still, with the average age of competitive pétanque players now at just 30, Gaffet admits the risk of illicit toking - if not veritable doping - is higher than...
...hand, to croon out a popular oldie called Nui (Sister). "We love our CEO," says Kim Young Kee, an LG executive vice president. "He shows us a good time." CEOs rarely stoop to carouse with the common man in an Asia dominated by secretive business clans and élite old-boy networks. But Kim is no ordinary Asian boss. He began his career 35 years ago as a nondescript engineer at an LG refrigerator factory, climbed the ranks, and claimed the CEO post in October. Now he aims to duplicate the same feat with LG - lifting a consumer-electronics company...