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...woman President," says Françoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist Deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled by men who can't stand the idea. The fact that Ségolène is no longer acting as a 'comrade' but as a rival is completely astonishing for them, and completely insufferable." There's a history to this. French women weren't granted the right to vote or stand in national elections until 1944, a generation after women in the U.S. and most of the rest of Europe. Since 2000, all political parties have...
...which over the past century has occasionally crossed paths with the Roman Catholic church. But Cosa Nostra's sins share nothing with those of the Da Vinci Code or Francis Ford Coppola films - they are real. Provenzano is believed to have had a hand in the slayings of countless rival gang members, as well as of innocent bystanders and crusading magistrates. It's no longer a secret that some mobsters are deeply religious. The mystery remains that they can reconcile what they read in the holy scripture with what they write in the book of life...
...needs Harvard, you ask? Yale does, of course--so that it has a rival team it can beat every now and then. (THE REV.) MARC HALL YALE '37 Stowe...
...whose arrest sparked the violence will be tried in court and not held indefinitely as a detainee. Now that the military has backed off, the Iraqi legal system may do the same. Sadr himself was targeted for arrest in 2004 on the charge of ordering the assassination of a rival. The charge was ultimately shelved when he struck a deal and said he would join the political process...
...chairman of the firm, before leaving to join the Clinton administration in 1993. He served as Treasury secretary from 1995 to 1999—when he was succeeded by his protégé Summers—and he then went to work for Goldman Sachs’ rival, Citigroup. Rubin joined Ford’s board of directors in 2000. “Citigroup’s multifaceted relationship with Ford could raise a question whether my relationship with Ford and Citigroup creates an appearance of conflict,” Rubin, who is chairman of Citigroup?...