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...with the publication of a bestselling book, The Hidden Face of Le Monde, by veteran journalists Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen. Their allegations were sensational: a corrupt relationship with the head of the police union; gifts to Colombani for giving media training to a mayor; a pattern of blatantly favoring certain politicians (such as hapless 1995 presidential candidate Edouard Balladur). In June Le Monde agreed not to proceed with libel lawsuits against the authors, who in turn agreed not to republish their book, but the damage was done. The paper's finances may be in worse shape than...
In a Californian coastal idyll known for harboring creative types like Ansel Adams, Jack London and onetime mayor Clint Eastwood, the latest public nuisance is also the city's very soul--art. With 120 art galleries in a town of 4,058 people, or one gallery for every 34 residents, the city council of Carmel-by-the-Sea voted last month to limit the number of new galleries moving into town. Carmel's leaders decided that the city, which earns no sales-tax revenue when out-of-state tourists snap up a watercolor, has reached aesthetic overkill...
...artistic community is canvas-shredding mad. "The art galleries bring a lot of people to town. They are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg," says Linda Miller, who runs a gallery with her husband Jim, a painter, on Ocean Avenue, the city's main drag. Mayor Sue McCloud is unmoved. "We need a more diverse economy," she says...
...MAYOR OF PITCAIRN ISLAND The sole police officer on this 2-sq.-mi. island (pop. 47), Brenda Christian became its first woman mayor after nearly half of Pitcairn's adult males were convicted of rape last month
...side to victory would reinforce Hollande's bona fides as leader. With the party's renewed energy has come revived competition for the Socialist candidacy in the 2007 presidential race. Some of Hollande's colleagues in the yes camp - including Strauss-Kahn, former Culture Minister Jack Lang and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë - hanker after the presidency, too. But Laurent Fabius, a former Prime Minister under François Mitterrand in the mid-'80s, is spearheading the no campaign as part of his own presidential bid. He argues that the constitution favors unfettered free markets at the expense of social...