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...Prime Minister. That system works when the two office holders are of a similar mind, as Chirac is with Jean-Pierre Raffarin. But when they're not, as last year's French elections showed, popular support can falter. And that's the last thing an already unloved and ill-understood E.U. can afford
...student government. Conservative students objected to the notion of granting so-called diversity seats to groups that “feel their community’s voice has been silenced.” The parsing of diversity is all too often skin deep, and the conservatives at Amherst understood that these seats were devised with certain groups in mind, namely groups defined by race and sexual preference. Accordingly, the conservatives adopted a radical approach in order to illustrate the hypocrisy of the left and explicate the connection between diversity seats and the logic of determinism: they sought a conservative diversity...
...DiCAPRIO: My experience with him was pretty amazing. He understands the journey that he wants the character to make, but he lets you go through your own process to get to the end result - which I think he's already understood. I felt I was working with a great visionary, somebody who can masterfully assemble these hidden mechanisms that people don't realize make a movie operate seamlessly, and with great dramatic force immerse you in the world he creates...
...meal, Lord tells the table that he has been reviewed positively in the Dutch edition of Playboy. He runs to the kitchen and returns with the well-thumbed magazine. No one at the table can read Dutch, but the review is adjacent to a photo of a universally understood naked Naomi Campbell. Who wouldn't be happy with such placement...
...rose--Lance Cooper, the boy who had had an unrequited crush on her in high school. He heard she was back in town and called to ask her to lunch. She accepted and then called back to say she wasn't ready to date. He said he understood and asked her to call him if she changed her mind. But he called her again the next day and persuaded her to reconsider. They were married in 1993. Lance had spent 12 years as a computer consultant but never found as much satisfaction in that job as he does today...