Word: phane
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...sets Royal apart from other French pols. Royal readily acknowledges that her positions would have less appeal if they weren't being laid out by a woman. "It's a symbol of change," she says. "Where men have failed, people think, O.K., maybe we'll try a woman." Stéphane Rozès, one of France's most respected pollsters, says, "She is popular because she's a woman who has a nondoctrinaire stance toward politics. People see her as out to solve problems, while so many others, most of them men, are stuck in the fog of ideology...
...PARIS, BEING ECO-FRIENDLY is hardly associated with elegance, but Stéphane Jaulin, 35, has changed the concept with L'Appartement 217, his "organic only" beauty spa whose holistic treatments are a favorite among fashionistas...
...party doctrine, she advocates a tougher line on delinquents, wants to loosen widely circumvented rules requiring students to attend schools in their neighborhoods, and has even criticized the 35-hour workweek. "She is popular because she's a woman who has a nondoctrinaire stance toward politics," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the polling firm CSA-Opinions. "People see her as out to solve problems, while so many others, most of them men, are stuck in the fog of ideology." That's a sense that has taken hold not just in the wider public, but among activists...
...rare respite from the political failures that have plagued his final years in office. Chirac himself decided in 1999 to award the museum project to Nouvel, a Socialist voter who had been an outspoken critic of Chirac's urban policies. It was a felicitous choice: Stéphane Martin, the museum's president, who has worked closely with Nouvel since then, says, "We have never gotten mad at one another, which in the French tradition of such collaborations is remarkable." To some degree, that must be due to the immense role granted to Nouvel, not simply for the building...
...British government's Live Music Forum, says, "While other sections of the music industry have gone through some growing pains over the last couple of years, the live-music industry has just been getting bigger and more successful." And it's not just Britain. According to Stéphane Gambetta, marketing director for the annual music-trade get-together MIDEM, "Live is becoming an increasing revenue stream and also a big part of the global music industry." Figures compiled by the Association of German Concert Agencies (IDKV) show that since 1999, Germans have been spending more on attending live music...