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...more serious issues of fame and fortune. Complaints about the lifestyle of the rich and famous is a trail well-trodden in the music industry, and Skinner’s descent down the same path is part bizarre and part amusing—I can’t help shake the feeling that his tongue remains resolutely in cheek with lines like “We’ve got two 50 grand in the budget to go/ Subtract five for club promo/ Lose five for a good video and fifteen for a dud video, fuck that...
...events that killed Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's contested youth job bill has played out in identical fashion twice before in the past decade. Huge protests confronted the government's attempt to overhaul pensions in the mid-1990s, and they broke out again when it tried to shake up the Finance Ministry in 2000. In both cases, the government also backed off, with serious consequences. The 1996 climbdown by then Prime Minister Alain Juppé helped bring a socialist government to power the following year; in the 2000 debacle it was Finance Minister Christian Sautter who lost...
...should be awakened to make money to cover the social sphere." Growing animated, he added: "We are not announcing some kind of revolution." Ironically, the reforms Lepper and the Kaczynskis denounced on their way to power have made the economy so resilient that their fulminations have not managed to shake investor confidence. Political shocks such as questioning the central bank's independence or promising new programs without new revenues are being largely absorbed. "The fundamentals are strong," says Balcerowicz. But if the government continues on its present course, for how long...
When Franks' rough draft first arrived at the Pentagon nearly a year ago, the plan was to invade Iraq from Kuwait in the south, from Turkey in the north and from Jordan in the west. Rumsfeld couldn't shake the notion that it seemed too familiar. He felt that the U.S. would face a far weaker Iraqi army than the one it crushed 12 years ago--and has bombed incessantly for the past five years. "Despite being told not to do it, [Franks] basically sent up a revised Gulf War I plan. Rumsfeld couldn't believe it," says a senior...
Perhaps Rumsfeld is counting on the first war of the 21st century to shake the brass out of its cold war mentality. But it may be that he has already accomplished most of what he came to do: reassert civilian control of a military that had grown used to getting its way. As photocopiers cranked out the deployment orders last week for Rumsfeld to consider at his own unpredictable pace, top military officers admitted they are scrambling to think ahead, no longer waiting for him to O.K. their every move. Any delay, they said, would be risky with...