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Another Right Turn Europe 's left took a new beating as Greeks voted in a conservative government, ousting George Papandreou's socialist PASOK party, which had dominated Greek politics for more than two decades. Incoming Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, head of the victorious New Democracy party, is the nephew and namesake of a former PM, and was elected on a pledge of more jobs and a crackdown on corruption. The move to the right in Greece is just one of a series of recent snubs to leftist governments. In 2002, voters in France gave conservative President Jacques Chirac the parliamentary...
...extraordinary son, brother, grandson, nephew and cousin, but most of all, a friend who is now in a better life,” Chacón said to those assembled, many of whom were crying...
...campaign headquarters in Montgomery around lunchtime, recount his late-night exploits and brag about his political connections, according to a Blount campaign worker. All that made him slow to win over the Alabama crowd, who began to complain that Bush was letting things slide. C. Murphy Archibald, a nephew of Blount's who worked on the campaign that fall, told TIME that Bush "was good at schmoozing the county chairs, but there wasn't a lot of follow-up." Archibald, now a trial attorney in North Carolina, remembers that a group of older Alabama socialites, who were volunteering their time...
...directors and poor performances at ABC and Disney's theme parks and animation business have made him a target. Eisner's micromanaging style, imperious mien and inability to groom a successor--all perfectly acceptable when you're coining money--are now liabilities. Chief dissident Roy Disney, the founder's nephew, has called for his head, and Institutional Shareholders Services, an influential investor-advisory group, has recommended that its clients withhold their vote for Eisner at the company's annual shareholders' meeting next month...
...women who raise them for a living and the kids who gather eggs or simply kick up infected dust in their villages. "If I had known about the bird flu," says Roongroj Boontang, the uncle who allowed Kaptan Boonmanuj to play with his fighting roosters, "my nephew would still be alive." --Reported by Andrew Perrin/Ben Ya Pad, Karl Taro Greenfeld and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong and David Bjerklie/New York