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...hard-liners suspect the French of positioning themselves to influence the Arab-Israeli peace process by leveraging Hamas' European funding. France says it has found no evidence of such funding. "We fight against any terrorist groups who might have bases in France or find financing from France," says embassy spokeswoman Natalie Loiseau...
...tighter seams, tougher fibers, better fit and lighter weight. As the gear has improved, the commandos have latched on. The North Face recently added a camouflage fly to one of its expedition tents in the hope of making more military sales. In every other way, says Jill Pagliaro, a spokeswoman for North Face, "the design for Alpine athletes and military usage is similar...
...child toward the purchase of school books. In some schools, students are being asked to clean the classrooms themselves. Teachers have been told they have to work two hours a week more than the 26 hours of instruction they performed earlier. The problems extend to higher education. Heike Gundermann, spokeswoman for Humboldt University, Berlin's oldest, says the cutbacks may mean the elimination of 500 professorial or scientific positions. It's also possible, Gundermann says, that the normal intake of 5,000 students per semester may have to be scaled back. Says Christhard Gössling, director of Berlin...
...saddened by the resignations but not because he was responsible for choosing Raines. "You make choices," said Sulzberger. "Some work. Some don't work. My heart was broken because these men were taking an act for the good of an institution that they and I love." (A Times spokeswoman said Raines and Boyd would not comment for this article.) And indeed, the Blair scandal and its aftermath followed a decade in which Sulzberger had modernized and in many ways improved the staid Gray Lady. The son of the previous publisher and scion of a family that has owned the Times...
...craze. Its new line of Gen Y-oriented Scions will hit dealer lots in June with a standard package that lets buyers choose from three wheel-cover designs--or pay $665 to upgrade to ritzier alloy rims. "A lot of people go right out and buy custom wheels," says spokeswoman Ming-Jou Chen. "We want to give them a choice from the factory." A choice, mind you, that is no bigger than...