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...Upon Potts' return to England, he worked his way through the amateur opera scene. According to the program for a 2003 Bath Opera production of Aida in which he appeared, he had already sung with that company several times and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. But that same year, he had a nasty bicycle accident. Health difficulties and medical bills took him away from opera and into his job selling phones. (Read "Why American Idol Keeps Soaring...
...trade was being affected in the seizures - would intervene in the strait if the local governments didn't solve the problem themselves. A new spirit of cooperation took hold along the strait. "All of us shared the same goal and objective," says Zahari Jamian, a captain in the Royal Malaysian Navy, "to paint the picture to the world that the strait is not really a war-risk zone...
...tricky nature of the job means a fellow of the Royal Society, Britain's independent scientific academy, or its Royal Academy of Engineers, is most likely to fill the position, the headhunter's document suggests...
...Most Socialists sought to maximize on the media frenzy around Sarkozy's reported comments, even as government officials began to back off earlier denials that Sarkozy ever made his notorious comments and switched to claiming the media had taken them seriously out of context. Still, few applauded Royal's pardon-seeking for Sarkozy-mirroring public opinion on the matter. An IFOP/Paris Match poll taken after Royal's Dakar speech found that 56% of people condemning her apology...
...Meanwhile, a flurry of polls find the once popular Royal now badly trailing most Socialist Party leaders as the best person to take Sarkozy on for the presidency in 2012. But that, French political analysts agree, is precisely why Royal has chosen such an explosive method of reacting to Sarkozy. Sure, the immediate fall-out may earn her criticism from fellow pols and the public alike - but the alternative would be to do nothing for the next three years, and risk people forgetting that she and her presidential ambitions exist...