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...years, and second dreariest in the past half century. Monday's forecast (rain, highs of 63 degrees) was rather typical of the season, which dumped down nearly three times the amount of rain as you'd expect to find during an average June-August period. According to French press reports, temperatures only reached seasonal averages around 10 times during those same three months, with highs frequently 10 to 20 degrees below normal. Little wonder the Seine-side version of a Potemkin beach - the annual Paris Plage - drew less people and shorter visits per person this year, or that its food...
...Already, cracks are surfacing in operator relations. Earlier this week, a memo from pan-European carrier Orange that was leaked to the press complained that the combination of the Nokia link and Orange's existing music service on the same phone could confuse customers. Orange does not deny the contents of the memo, but declined to elaborate on it, except to say in a carefully worded statement that it is testing the N81 and has not yet committed...
...Material from the Associated Press was used in the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...Venezuelan officials, meanwhile, continued their long-standing campaign against "imperialist" media by claiming that the briefcase episode had been embellished to make Caracas look bad, and that "manipulation" by the media was behind the tuna can episode. Then, responding to a critical editorial, the communication ministry devoted an entire press release to calling the New York Times "nothing more than of one the media arms of the Bush government." Lastly, on his own Sunday talk show, Chavez criticized a correspondent from the British newspaper The Guardian for asking a question about term limits. Instead of answering his question, the President...
...government expects the measure to give Venezuelans a more equitable distribution of sunlight and, in the words of science and technology minister Hector Navarro, help "organize the country and social life in a more rational manner." Upon hearing the proclamation, a U.S. newspaper suggested recent headlines made the Caracas press read like The Onion, and drew comparisons between Venezuela and Woody Allen's film Bananas. In that movie, Allen's revolutionary hero-turned-president declares that from now on his people must change their underwear every half hour and wear it on the outside "so we can check." In Venezuela...