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Some of Chirac's peers may be smirking at his plight, but perhaps they should take note. For the French President's rock-bottom ratings are an extreme example of a corrosive trend in public opinion that poses just as much of a threat to President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and their colleagues in dozens of other countries, as well as to the heads of global institutions and corporations from IBM to the International Monetary Fund. As political and business leaders ready themselves for their annual trek to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they...
...plot? Oh, never mind, except to note that it sidles up to the hero's birth and impromptu, painfully comic circumcision. What matters here is the casting of the two--sorry, six--leads. Steve Coogan, the Brit comic best known for incarnating Alan Partridge, a suavely unknowing TV host, plays four roles: Tristram, his father, Sterne and a put-upon egomaniac star named Steve Coogan. Rob Brydon, who has worked often with Coogan, plays Tristram's Uncle Toby and "Rob Brydon." Much of the film's grace and brass come from their comic kinship, as when they compare Pacino impressions...
Okrent’s criticism of the Times’ reporting on Iraq’s weapons in the run-up to the war led the paper to print an extensive editor’s note addressing the matter, Calame said, even though the note ran before Okrent’s column on the issue appeared...
...seriously has the Livedoor scandal affected the Japanese financial markets? Despite all the market and media turmoil, most institutional investors and analysts, inside and out of Japan, are quick to note that Livedoor is not a large company, even by Japanese standards, and, therefore, they argue that the ?Livedoor Shock? now consuming Japan risks blowing the economic impact of the company?s woes out of proportion. Peter Morgan, Chief Economist for HSBC Securities in Tokyo calls Livedoor a symbolic battle and a specific case that has little implications for the rest of the economy. ?The economy is better now than...
...from are making as much as $20,000 a year—half their income—less than the average for their peers, placing them solidly in the working class, not the middle class. Heritage also claims that military recruits are better educated than the general population. They note that 98 percent of recruits have a high school education, compared to 75 percent of the general population. But recruits are far less likely to have completed any college than their peers. It’s hard to make the case, based on Heritage’s data, that recruits...