Word: pascale
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...liberalization can be concluded before President Bush's "fasttrack" authority to do trade deals expires on June 30. (After that, any deal would be nibbled to death by powerful interest groups in Congress.) Trade ministers met and remet on the margins of Davos, chivvied into shape by the indefatigable Pascal Lamy, director general of the World Trade Organization. At the end of the week, Susan Schwab, the U.S. Trade Representative, talked optimistically about the chances of a deal. "There's been a real step-up in the level and depth of dialogue," she said. But others doubted whether, given Bush...
...recent years, more and more books have tried to open the doors (or windows at least) of this hermit country. Amitav Ghosh's big novel, The Glass Palace, filled its pages with research about Burma under the British. Pascal Khoo Thwe, in his From the Land of Green Ghosts, offered a lyrical and inspiring look at life within a Karen Christian village (and the ongoing Karen insurrection), and of his own unlikely passage from guerrilla and waiter to Cambridge student. Even Amy Tan's last novel, Saving Fish From Drowning, is set in Burma, among American tourists who bat back...
...problem of racism in American discourse is typified by the N-word outburst of comedian Michael Richards followed by his abject apology, the French variant is altogether more toxic. The latest outrage came from second-string TV personality and self-appointed social commentator Pascal Sevran, whose recently published book included the obscenely racist idea that the "black [penis] is responsible for famine in Africa." Elaborating in a newspaper interview, Sevran said, "Africa is dying from all the children born there" to parents supposedly too sexually undisciplined or dumb to realize they could not feed them all. The answer...
...Paris police inspector, Pascal Popil, has been interested in this boy for five years, and is convinced he has recently murdered a half-dozen men. Yet Popil does not charge him with any of these killings. No, the inspector intuits in the boy a trait stronger and stranger than homicidal brutality: a remoteness from fellow feeling."I don't want a conviction," Popil says, "I want him declared insane. In an asylum they can study him and try to find out what he is.... There's not a word for it yet. For lack of a better word...
...Michael Lynton, chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment. "We were confident they would work," But to raise the odds of success, Sony's domestic and international marketing operations were overhauled and management oversight of projects intensified. In the case of February's remake of The Pink Panther, studio chief Amy Pascal ordered reshoots and re-edits to the director's cut that made Steve Martin's Inspector Clouseau less lascivious and more laughable. The comedy earned a PG rating, a wider audience and an $82 million domestic gross...