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...generate jobs or mend the social fracture between the country's affluent classes and its disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from 8 in 1998. "France has clearly expressed a demand for a more social approach," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for the Study of French Political Life at Sciences Po in Paris. "Borloo is the response." Raffarin dutifully resigned after the right's rout at the polls, but Chirac opted to renominate him and install Nicolas Sarkozy, the most ambitious figure on the French right...
...their art: Henry Moore sketched his strong sculptor's hands. And James Montgomery Flagg used his own face for the famous World War I "I Want You" poster of Uncle Sam. The exhibit is only a small excerpt from a massive new book, Me I, by Oneself by curator Pascal Bonafoux and editor-publisher Diane de Selliers, due out this month. While affinities are not readily apparent between the 19th century master draftsman Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and the feisty 20th century rebel Pablo Picasso, the two artists had much in common. Picasso was a lifelong admirer of Ingres...
...Making the imports illegal - as the U.S. has done - won't be easy. David Byrne, the E.U. commissioner for Health and Consumer Protection, says he doesn't have the authority to intervene, and that "any import restriction would be considered a trade issue." But Trade commissioner Pascal Lamy says a ban applying to both internal trade and imports would be inconsistent with World Trade Organization rules. Until a complete ban is put in place, Stevenson argues, one legal loophole should be closed: under E.U. law, the source of small amounts of fur trim do not need to be identified...
...America 's steel industry, Bush said the time was right to end the 21-month-old subsidies, which violated WTO trade rules. But now U.S. trade partners are pressing for other concessions. "We have a number of disputes with the U.S. ," says Arancha Gonzalez, spokeswoman for E.U. trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy. "We've solved this...
...never been to a fashion shoot, you might think click was where it ended. Pascal Dangin knows better. He's the man whom photographers, designers and editors seek out to perfect the pictures--and the people--who appear in fashion magazines. Dangin is founder and head of Box Studios in New York City, the fashion world's most sought-after photo-retouching firm. As the essential "postproduction" man for Annie Leibovitz, Craig McDean and other top-tier photographers, Dangin draws out possibilities within the negative after the picture is snapped. Not incidentally, he also improves any skimpy eyebrows, plump thighs...