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Here is a well-meant word of advice for France's presidential hopefuls: kindly return from whatever planet you are on as soon as possible. France needs you to lead an honest debate on the challenges facing the nation. Some rather serious things are wrong with France today: it has one of the highest unemployment rates in Western Europe, the government's finances are overstrained, the country's international competitiveness [an error occurred while processing this directive] is waning, and there's a deeply felt public malaise that is reflected in the bad poll numbers of political leaders, as well...
...group set a common goal of getting in touch with their inner manager, a serious exercise in which strawberry roans, pintos and buckskins would be broken down into mere corporate tools. "I saw one of the founders of the Home Ranch work with a wild mustang a few years ago," recalled Mickey Connolly, co-founder and CEO of Conversant, whose clients include much of the FORTUNE 500. "The techniques he used to calm fear and replace it with trust and partnership struck me as crucially important to managers and executives. Horses and cattle are ideal to work with because they...
...course, the President and his party still have some built-in advantages. The gerrymandering of the past decade has turned the vast majority of congressional districts into fortresses for incumbents, to the point where the number of House seats in serious contention is only about three dozen, compared with roughly 100 in the 1994 landslide that brought the G.O.P. to power with a 54-seat pickup. And the Republicans retain their advantage in money and, most operatives on both sides agree, the pinpoint sophistication of their turnout operation among a conservative base in which Bush still has nearly 90% approval...
...closest thing to an immigration policy to come out of House Republicans was a 700-mile "virtual fence" along the border--a politically expedient idea that, enacted on its own, leaves Bush with less to horse-trade in his efforts to get what he really wants, which is serious reform. With that in mind, White House officials resisted holding a signing ceremony on the fence bill. But House Republican leaders were so insistent that the White House finally agreed to a low-key event in the Roosevelt Room with just six minutes of presidential remarks...
...According to hospital policies, Beth Israel categorizes patients as "good," "fair," "serious," and—most gravely—"critical." The hospital does not use the word "stable" in patient descriptions provided to journalists...