Word: nicks
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...they hate you, Mr. President?" asked Nick Robinson, the political editor of Britain's ITV News, at a press conference in London last week. "I don't know that they do," the President replied. But I fear he's too optimistic. There is something about Bush that just gets under the skin of Europeans...
...interested in and less knowledgeable about the U.S. than they were 20 years ago. They increasingly form their views of the U.S. from the sort of European journalism that stresses American weirdness, as if every American were a Botoxed, snake-handling cowboy Holy Roller, and that has produced what Nick Robinson calls a "grotesque caricature" of Bush in Europe...
...over. At London-based Henderson Global Investors, which manages about $160 billion in assets, fund managers think Total needs to do more. A September 2001 accident at a Total fertilizer plant in Toulouse that killed 30 people raised questions about the company's safety record, says Henderson's Nick Robins, and its continuing presence in Burma puts it off limits for inclusion in some of Henderson's socially responsible funds. "We're looking for consistent year-on-year improvements," Robins says. "We recognize Total is trying to change, but we need another two to three years" to ensure that...
...defend smoking; I freely acknowledge that, as a hobby (all right, a habit), it smells, and that Woody Allen was probably being satirical when, in "Sleeper," one of his scientists from the future announces that smoking does not cause cancer but cures it. I might even say that the Nick Tosches quote I cited last time about Las Vegas - that it is "a religion, a disease, a nightmare, a paradise for the misbegotten" - applies with equal acuity to smoking...
...saving my tears. In the end, it’s still MTV. The people who audition for “The Real World” are all shameless self-promoters. Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey are exploiting “Newlyweds” for career reasons and financial concerns as much as the show is exploiting them. And as for the “Rich Girls,” you’re going to love this: Jaime and Ally are co-producing it. Yup. Poor little rich girls, indeed...