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...base.”Brush said that Felipe’s and DiGiovanni will be in communication during the coming weeks, as the July 25 CLC meeting approaches.“There will be a lot occurring over the next month that will really determine the direction and tone of our discussions,” he said, adding that he hopes to resolve the issues amicably. “I think that our chances of coming to a positive ruling will be increased if we keep things on a positive note, at least through the 25th...
...eager to protect embattled EADS co-ceo Noël Forgeard in the face of expensive Airbus production delays and an investigation into the propriety of stock sales. When Socialist leader François Hollande said Villepin inspired "no confidence," the Prime Minister summoned his most arrogant tone, saying: "I denounce the easiness, and I say it to your face, the cowardice in your attitude." The next day he took it back, but the sense of a government on edge remained. While few insiders think President Jacques Chirac will drop Villepin, he might counsel him to study a little more...
...teeth. How many people know that we have a record of his voice as well? During his 1912 presidential campaign, Roosevelt was recorded several times on Thomas Edison's wax-cylinder technology. His voice, it turns out, is not quite what you would expect from his pugnacious appearance. The tone is patrician, cultivated, almost professorial. It has accents not so different from the ones you hear in the voice of that other Roosevelt, Franklin. Old money courses through every syllable...
...Subject narcissstically Googled self, and ceased when he came across unflattering remark on friend Josh Peterson's blog about his recent "nails-on-a-chalkboard" karaoke rendition of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy." (N.B.: Our mole was present at the performance, and confirms that the subject's tone-deaf singing was "excessively painful" and "should be forbidden by the Geneva Conventions...
...Still, the diplomatic tone of initial responses to the package suggests that there is agreement on one key point: that by responding positively and offering the prospect of a deal, even as they hold out for their own terms, they may be able to win over enough members of Security Council - particularly Russia and China - to make any punitive action unlikely in the short term. One newspaper considered close to conservative elements in the leadership reported on June 11 that Iran was working on a counteroffer, adding: "We do not have to play by the rules others are setting...