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...organized racketeering with the firm's cash." Quizzed about the payout, Landau said it wasn't part of the deal with Sanofi and that he hadn't "had time to make the calculation" of its size. Heinz-Werner Meier, Aventis' HR chief in Germany , told German daily Die Welt that the payout was "absolutely customary by international standards, and even at the low end in the U.S. " Even so, it's a pill that some shareholders are finding hard to swallow. - By Peter Gumbel No More Bale-Outs In the first ever challenge to a wealthy nation's domestic agricultural...
...officer James M. Green, who also responded to the 911 call, testified that he noticed that Pring-Wilson had a dime-sized welt on his forehead...
...more bad headlines over the conviction of his close ally, former Prime Minister Alain Juppé, on corruption charges. Schröder's painful labor reforms have torpedoed his popularity, which has dropped from a 57% approval in June 2002 to 34% today, according to a poll for Die Welt. His Social Democrats face almost certain defeat in a string of local elections later this year. "All three men are very pragmatic," says Cord Jakobeit, a political scientist at the University of Hamburg. "If a joint initiative makes them look better on the domestic front, they will seize...
...unrepentant Stefani to walk the plank Friday night, but the damage had been done. Schröder may not feel the Adriatic breezes wafting through his naturally brown hair this summer, but he has gauged the winds of his electorate perfectly. A poll conducted for the daily Die Welt last week showed that 66% of respondents approved of Schröder's cancellation, a stance that varied only marginally among voters of the Christian Democrats, the Greens, or Schröder's own Social Democrats. "He gets what he wants: a big headline," says Karl-Heinz Nassmacher, a political scientist...
This season the buzz is all about a new line of jeans called Habitual, the brainchild of Nicole Garrett, a former fashion editor, and her fiance Michael Colovos. Habitual jeans' subtle washes and tailored details such as welt pockets and bound buttonholes have become the overnight favorites of models like Gisele Bundchen and Carolyn Murphy. The jeans are so hot that Barney's and Fred Segal can't keep them on the shelf, and they are rumored to have Levi's creative team in a tizzy. Of course, Levi's is a 130-year-old multibillion-dollar global brand...