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...Veronez and his allies are betting that Silva's replacement will have no more power than she did. The man who has accepted Lula's invitation to replace her is Carlos Minc, until Wednesday the environment secretary in Rio de Janeiro state. Minc is respected as a true believer, even winning a UN prize in 1989 as one of 500 notable green campaigners...
...respect won't save the Amazon; after all, few people were more respected than Silva. And after five and a half years of sticking her finger in holes, she eventually decided enough was enough. If Minc is to stand any chance of succeeding where Silva failed, then his presence in Brasilia will have to be more than symbolic. Nothing suggests it will...
...Plenel, 52, was part of a troika that ran Le Monde with apparent success for a decade. He made his reputation as a hard-nosed reporter. Beginning in the mid-'90s, as an investigative editor, Plenel - along with managing director Jean-Marie Colombani and board chairman Alain Minc - sought to give an aggressive edge to France's most prestigious daily, founded in 1944 as a staid "newspaper of reference." Colombani and Minc brought in outside investors, in the process reducing the staff journalists' longstanding financial control of the paper from a majority to a blocking minority. Plenel led the editorial...
...discovery of the cultural richness of the provinces and a resurgence of regional identity--all aided by technological advances that offer workers and companies an unprecedented degree of mobility. "If you are a successful start-up in Bordeaux or Toulouse in the technology field," says economist and author Alain Minc, "the question for the boss is whether to stay in Toulouse or move to London, not Paris. Formerly, they had to go to Paris to be close to the banks and have a decent work force." "France no longer passes through Paris but through Alsace, Provence, Brittany," says journalist Yannick...
Attitudes are also changing in a fashion that embraces the New Economy. Two famed French characteristics--an innate suspicion of wealth and a fear of risk--are fast breaking down as a younger generation taps into the Internet revolution. "Ten years ago," says Minc, "only 1 out of 200 graduates of France's elite universities said he wanted to be an entrepreneur. Today it's more than half." Indeed, the rise of the young, well-educated, global-minded generation is one of the most important forces driving the French renaissance in almost every area...