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...Giscard, he’ll be here next week,” he replied enigmatically, referring to Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, former French president and president of the Constitutional Convention...
...hasn't worked, and I don't see why it should now." Further complications will arise next week, as representatives from all 25 member states begin formal discussions on the new constitution. It took 16 months of negotiating and the patriarchal hand of former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing to arrive at the current draft's delicate power balance between the member states and the Brussels institutions. Many smaller countries are deeply unhappy about the draft's limit on the number of full-fledged Commissioners, which would leave some countries without a vote in the main executive...
...piece by piece. Out went the cluster of Internet ventures that never lived up to their hype, the book and magazine publishers for which Messier overpaid, and the water utility that was once the company's core. Even its 18th century French manse, Château de Méry-sur-Oise, about 50 km northwest of Paris, is on the block. Last week came the blockbuster spin-off, as Fourtou woke the company from Messier's Technicolor dream of becoming a major player in Hollywood. After an epic four-month auction among many of the world's largest media...
...charismatic Segundo perhaps the most recognizable beardless Cuban alive. The gregarious nonagenarian reveled in his stardom: he played for the Pope, surrounded himself with women and transported millions of listeners to a simpler, more romantic era with his rich baritone. He was, as Buena Vista Social Club collaborator Ry Cooder put it, "the last of the best." --By Nathan Thornburgh
...final polish on his draft European Union constitution last week, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing suggested a new motto for Europe: united in diversity. Some day, maybe. But not this summer. divided in anger would be more like it, or perhaps take your beach and shove it. Just when the E.U. is trying to forge a coherent identity, national pride is threatening to swamp the whole enterprise as the leaders of two of the Union's biggest members jump headlong into the summer silly season. It was bad enough when Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi compared...