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...Chirac, meanwhile, was rubbing his hands in glee over his suddenly improved prospects. Ever since he unwisely called - and lost - a snap parliamentary election in 1997, he has been a deeply wounded leader, forced to share power with Jospin and shorn of his image as a master strategist. As a result, many analysts were ready to write off Chirac's re-election chances. But the conservatives' unexpectedly strong showing last week points to a real horse race in the 2002 contests...
...tells me that he is Prince Franz, presumably a distant cousin of the Leopold clan. My suspicions about the prince are heightened when he hands his consort one of those throwaway cameras and instructs her to snap a shot of him with Crowe. Certainly nothing that a real royal from Britain would do. But the Euro-royals are known to ride bikes in Holland and wait at bus stops in Spain. So perhaps having a mantelpiece snapshot with an Australian actor is part of that less starchy image...
What made Bush snap remains even more of a mystery to her parents and friends. One, Jenn Oglesby, 14, spent almost every weekend shopping and watching videos with Bush. "She seemed really happy," says Oglesby, who spoke to Bush on the phone the night before the shooting. "We talked about school, but she didn't mention any problems." Before Bush excused herself for dinner, the two made plans to hang out over the weekend. Instead, as her friend sat in a juvenile-detention center charged with attempted homicide, Oglesby stopped by Bush's home last Friday night to console...
Unless you're outdoors in the midst of a cold snap, chances are you can't see your breath. And no one would ever ask you to drop a quarter in a tin box for the right to free this invisible spirit from your lungs. Yet last November, Murphy Oil Corp., based in El Dorado, Ark., voluntarily shelled out several hundred thousand dollars for the right to cough out carbon dioxide, the same stuff you exhaled three sentences...
...Even after the departure of the Trinamool Congress, Vajpayee's government retains a majority in parliament. It could theoretically fall if more coalition partners jump ship. But if that happens, the snap general election that is sure to follow would be fought on a single issue - corruption in government. The incumbents would be at a terrible disadvantage. Safer to stick together and hunker down, and hope no more shells land close to the trenches...