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...sentiment. The fact that Sarkozy is indeed a man could potentially be a valid excuse if this manifestation of Sarkozy’s “manhood” were unique. But this is not an isolated incident—Sarkozy less than ten months in office have been rife with petty personal scandals that would be at home on the cover of People Magazine...
...rebel victory, we'll excommunicate them from the African Union". Even the region's former bad boy sponsor of rebellions, Libyan leader Mohammar Ghaddafi, condemned the rebel offensive as "a flagrant violation" of African security accords. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon noted that with violence and instability rife in throughout the area, "these developments are extremely dangerous, and could provoke an escalation throughout the region...
Speculation is rife in France that the board of directors at scandal-rocked Société Générale decided to retain embattled CEO Daniel Bouton only to allow him to do the one thing he's spent a decade avoiding: preparing the bank for acquisition by a hostile rival...
...John Cloud's "are gay relationships Different?" [Jan. 28]: Same-sex relationships?both gay and lesbian?are different, since they are hatched in a world rife with homophobic messages that almost ensure their failure. Yet gay men face two specific challenges: homophobia, both internal and external, and the simple fact that two men are romantically involved. Young males are shaped by biology and culture to be strong, decisive and uncompromising?leaders, not followers. Homophobia is an enormous obstacle, but it is the alpha-male factor that ultimately dooms all but the heartiest gay unions. David Ezell, NEW YORK CITY...
...difficult to ignore the sensation that King is working some things out, especially in the book's early scenes, rife with vivid descriptions of a broken body and a broken mind. "You don't think that kind of pain will pass, but it does," he writes. "Then they ship you home and replace it with the agony of physical rehabilitation." As King remembers his experience, though, "the thing that really terrified me was that my memory for a while became very unreliable." He figures, as he always has with his work, that the things that scare him will scare...