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...elected president of that body's ruling center-right majority. That electoral record makes his ambition to seek the EPAD presidency - which also requires him to win a majority vote by board members - entirely logical. "Jean Sarkozy has been elected at every step of his career," Education Minister Valérie Pecresse noted on the television channel i-Télé Tuesday. "No affirmation is more democratic than an election," echoed former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, a conservative, as he defended Jean Sarkozy...
...drive against airbrushed photos is being headed by conservative parliamentarian Valérie Boyer, who says the widespread use of digital technology to alter images is feeding the public a steady visual diet of falsified people, places and products. This artificial reality leads people to expect perfection from themselves and the world in an impossible way, she says. "When writers take a news item or real event and considerably embellish it, they are required to alert readers by calling the work fiction, a novel or a story based on dramatized facts. Why should it be any different for photographs?" Boyer...
...Bianca Resort is the best place to stay in Kolasin, with its wonderful spa, first-class gym, nightclub, fine restaurant and massive indoor pool. Rates start from about $190 for a standard double. While the nightlife does not rival Val D'Isère's, you can swap Budweiser and burgers (or red wine and raclette) for pear schnapps and kacamak, a delicious fondue-like dish made from boiled potatoes and melted cheese, eaten in traditional straw-roofed restaurants like Savardak...
...They totally had to wake up,” Penn coach Val Cloud said of her squad. “They played half asleep the first half so we really just told them, you know, if you want to lose again, you play like you are. If you want to win, you pick...
...love me," says Patricia, Princess of Cardiff, whose mangled English is one of the few notable differences between her character and the real-life Diana, Princess of Wales. Her would-be lover is French President Jacques-Henri Lambertye - drawn, it seems, to closely resemble real-life former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. "I still hear her saying it in English," the writer reveals. "It's not my memory reminding me of it, but her voice." The florid romantic tale, titled The Princess and the President, might have passed largely unnoticed into the annals of pulp fiction were...