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...however, the board agreed with the large group of Société Générale employees assembled in support of Bouton outside the bank's headquarters. They stressed the short-sightedness of vengefully sacking an otherwise proven manager just when the shattered bank most needs him. "You don't throw the captain overboard when the ship is sinking," said board member Philippe Pruvost, who represents employees...
...build a real community in a fake environment? "The benefits that accrue when you create these live/work clusters are pretty well proven. You can think of Silicon Valley as an example," says Dunleavy, who expects most buyers will be film industry employees, though the units would be available to anyone. Media reports set the project's cost at around $400 million, a figure Pinewood doesn't dispute but won't confirm. So another possible benefit could be to recoup costs by selling properties that almost certainly won't go cheaply. Moreover, the land in question - which Pinewood owns - is located...
...taboos in his efforts to reform France. But pundits have begun asking whether in reserving himself the right to say anything, Sarkozy hasn't gotten into the habit of contradicting himself by uttering just about everything. Indeed, in the past two weeks alone, various declarations by the president have proven so starkly at odds with one another that some observers are beginning to wonder if he isn't a touch, well, Sarkotic...
...Earth was not the center of the universe, but in fact orbited the Sun along with the other planets. Two years after the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's speech, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Church had treated Galileo, whose heliocentric theories have long since been proven correct. The future Pope's words, reads the text of the professors' letter, "offend and humiliate us as scientists faithful to reason and as teachers who dedicate our lives to the advancement and spread of knowledge...
...wonder why Hillary has been able to do so well in the first place. Sure she’s smart, has a decent amount of experience, and has proven herself a capable senator...