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...talk a better game than they play. To be sure, in May 1991 President François Mitterrand appointed France's first and only female Prime Minister, Edith Cresson - but she was tossed aside in less than a year. Jacques Chirac's party was led for three years by Michèle Alliot-Marie, now the Defense Minister, who is as formidable a politician as Royal and would be a potential presidential candidate herself if Sarkozy didn't have his party's nomination sewn up. But on the whole, the French political parties remain clannish clusters of ideological currents owing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where's the Gray Suit? | 9/10/2006 | See Source »

...finding the right fit--whether it's Harvard or not--when selecting a college. If we encourage kids to find a college that's a good fit and not just a big name, we will have happier--and more successful--students. LEAH BEASLEY CRANBROOK KINGSWOOD UPPER SCHOOL Bloomfield Hills, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 11, 2006 | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...interest rates, Ford's success is looking very rather brittle these days."It looks as if they rode the pickup wave too long. It's looks as if they should have gotten off before the wave crested,"says Jeff Schuster, an analyst with J.D. Power & Associates office in Troy, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Losing Steam at Ford | 8/24/2006 | See Source »

...Beirut. But last week, Europe - particularly France - took a closer look at the situation and effectively gulped in horror. A defiant Hizballah said it had no intention of handing over its arms. The rules of engagement under which the international force would act remain "fuzzy," French Defense Minister Michèle Alliot-Marie insisted, to worried nods of agreement from other European capitals. Until those rules get clarified, European countries are torn between a commitment to the U.N. peacekeeping process and grave concerns that they are sending their soldiers into what one Elysée official called "a dangerous, difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe's Collective Inaction in Lebanon | 8/20/2006 | See Source »

...children beg on the streets and in the subways. And for blocks along the Avenue de Stalingrad, scores of cafés and stores are crowded with Muslim men--and no women. The only comparable sight in the U.S. might be in certain neighborhoods of Detroit and nearby Dearborn, Mich. But that would be the exception. American Muslims tend to be university-educated professionals living in the suburbs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The American Exception | 8/14/2006 | See Source »

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