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Nobody likes to hear couples argue in public, so France's presidential front-runner Segolene Royal has a delicate problem - her partner and the father of her four children, Francois Hollande, is a policy wonk, and not all of his policy positions are the same as hers. It gets a little more complicated, though, because Hollande is also the leader of the Socialist Party whose nomination Royal recently won. His deft behind-the-scenes management of rival factions prevented ugly splits during the party's hotly contested primaries - the holding of which earned him plaudits, since the party's nomination...
...income tax increases. She argues that France's lofty tax scale already leaves average workers feeling their hard work is being penalized, and raising taxes could slow consumption, a main motor of French economic growth. But as in any good domestic spat, Hollande wasn't going to let his partner have the last word: He retorted Wednesday by noting the right's tax cuts had largely favored the wealthy to justify reiterating his pledge to reverse them. He tried to soften that blow - but only made his squeeze look ill-informed - by noting that the resulting increases would only effect...
...most objective standards, was doing pretty well. I lived in an old building in majestic Harlem, with a lovely son and partner, and made a show of wearing a suit and fedora to a job that merely requested jeans and a collar. I had a joint bank account and dental insurance. Yet, on any given day, if you'd asked me about my greatest accomplishment, it invariably began with my second life-the one in which I was a seven-foot blue elf whose hobbies included firing crossbows, trapping wild boars and reenacting the video for Michael Jackson's "Billie...
After Cecile Langelier started experiencing sleep-depriving aches from her new gardening ventures at home in Corning, Calif., last year, she and her partner Dennis Nelson decided the best balm might be a better mattress. Little did they know it would be made out of natural latex. "There was a support and softness that can only be described as being in my mother's arms," says Langelier, a former organizational-development consultant. "It was like lying down on a cloud...
...there's some hubris, where they think they know better," Jobs says. "They dictate what's on the phone. That just wouldn't work for us because we want to innovate. Unless we could do that, it wasn't worth doing." Jobs demanded special treatment from his phone-service partner, Cingular, and he got it. He even forced Cingular to re-engineer its technical infrastructure to handle the iPhone's unique voice-mail scheme. "They broke all their typical process rules to make it happen," says Tony Fadell, who heads Apple's iPod division. "They were infected by this product...