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Despite some jitters, few are panicking yet. Jean-Michel Six, head of economic research at Standard & Poor's in London, reckons the dollar will fall to between $1.42 and $1.45 against the euro by mid-2007, but even at that level, "we do not expect any significant impact on overall growth" in Europe. German machinery companies are currently operating at over 90% of their potential capacity, the highest since 1990, and are thus well able to weather a weaker dollar, says Olaf Wortmann, an economist at the German Engineering Federation...
...Equally ominous for Siniora would have been the sight of so many Lebanese Christians joining forces with Hizballah's Shi'ite base. Followers of Maronite Christian leader General Michel Aoun formed a colorful stream that flowed into the out of Christian East Beirut and into the crowd at the rally, dressed in their trademark orange. Aoun, who has presidential ambitions, formed an alliance with Hizballah that has split Lebanon's large Christian population, which has historically had strong ties to the U.S. and the West...
...months past to figure out what may have led to this incident. (She'd had a minor run-in with Peters about nine years ago.) So while Kasatka is back onstage, her trainers will direct her performances from outside the water for now. (See a Q&A with Jean-Michel Cousteau on killer whales...
...Animals,” “To Be and To Have,” “In the Land of the Dead,” and “Every Little Thing” to the Carpenter Center’s screen. Cahiers du Cinema editor Jean-Michel Frodon introduced Philibert on the festival’s opening night, while Philibert himself took questions that night and on Tuesday, Nov. 28. Both men visited Harvard classes in the earlier in the week. In an interview, Philibert called his entry to the documentary filmmaking world...
...worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television address, and Institutionalized Misogyny name-checks Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault. Another ditty neatly summed up male teenage sexual frustration with the song title Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend...