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Right on both counts. The first six months following Chirac's election were a lovefest. When France's leader touched off a worldwide furor with his decision to resume nuclear testing, Clinton refused to make an issue of it. The two Presidents cooperated to break the military and diplomatic logjam in Bosnia. Then the Gaullist Chirac gave NATO a welcome surprise by declaring he would bring France back into the military structures from which his political idol, Charles de Gaulle, had so haughtily withdrawn in 1966. But then the second part of Chirac's prediction kicked...
...Rainforest Cafe's Motley Fool message board--an online repository of comments about a fast-growing chain of rain forest-themed restaurants--is a cyber lovefest. Investors delight in the restaurants' lifelike robot birds and monkeys, gleefully report on the long lines to get in, and cheer on the company's latest expansion plans. With the stock's meteoric rise--up some 700% since its IPO last year--postings often lapse into euphoria: "I love this company"; "I love every dollar I have thrown into it"; and the group's oft-repeated rallying cry, "Let it RAIN...
...resulting campaign has been exceptionally personal, focusing on the very character traits that so concern the undecideds. Peres has followed what Americans might call a Rose Garden strategy, emphasizing his official duties as Prime Minister rather than electioneering. He underscored his world status last month during a high-profile lovefest with Bill Clinton in Washington--where the Administration, concerned about the health of the peace process, made abundantly clear its preference for Peres over Netanyahu...
...Rose's accusations of elitism simply don't hold water, which brings us to what appears to be her real problem: happiness. We are charged with being "tipsy" and "bawdy," and of participating in "excess" and in a "glorified lovefest;" most damningly, Ms. Rose even accuses us of "enjoy[ing our] fete." At least one person, Ms. Rose smirkingly tattles, actually vomited from too much champagne. Naturally, we share Ms. Rose's indignation at these sickening displays of pleasure. We share her moving, not-at-all-technocratic feeling that we "should concentrate on being more productive." We are very, very...
...Sadat/Begin Lovefest...