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...Sarkozy's communications team and fed to the French media, knowing that the Bush Administration had portrayed Chirac as the anti-Christ, and that by simply appearing friendly and cooperative, Sarkozy could restore friendly ties with Washington. Also aware that the unpopular U.S. President could really use a pal and admirer in a place that his Administration had least come to expect one - the Elysée Palace - Sarkozy has stressed the positive and pointed out all the ways France and the U.S. can work together. That, and his media-hyped Kennebunkport summer cookout with the Bushes has delivered...
...trusted to uphold the surge of legal contracts coming its way as the canal expands and Americans continue to move to Panama for cheaper living. "It's important that the poor children get this money and equally important that our legal system stop tarnishing itself," says a respected Lucom pal who requested anonymity because he's also an Arias-family friend. Infante calls Lehman's charges that he's trying to buy a favorable ruling "slanderous" and accuses Lehman of conflicts of interest, like not initially disclosing a $500,000 debt he owes a Lucom firm...
...someone who likes to invent what the future of science and technology looks like," Allen says. Grandiose maybe, except that he and a Seattle school pal did that once before. The ATA could grow to 350 dishes, but it may not have to. If it gets us asking questions that go beyond the usual noise of the news, it has done its job even before its switch is thrown...
...have very good fuel efficiency." Will that be enough to convince India's aspiring classes? Tata expects at the outset to sell 20,000 of these cars a month in India, in part because consumers will see them as safer than motorbikes on the country's chaotic roads. Ved Pal, 38, who works at a New Delhi finance company and who currently rides a bike, says he is tempted. "I have five people in my family," he says. "Only two people can sit on a bike. [A car] will be much better. On Sunday, when...
...just two black males in the class—ended up reading was Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s 1957 novel “The Assistant,” while my very Jewish friend read “Invisible Man” by black author Ralph Ellison. My pal claimed that Malamud’s novel was too boring and depressing. This summer, as I languished away in the Cambridge sun, something—a longing for the familiar, perhaps—told me to revisit Malamud and his tale of an old Jewish grocery store owner whose newfound...