Word: sweethearts
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...budget Tuesday, lifting the president's annual salary from $146,000 to $346,000. The move seeks to clarify the complicated, multi-sourced arrangement under which French Presidents have been paid. Indeed, even as leftist opponents sought to express indignation over the appearance of the rightist legislators sneaking a sweetheart raise to their leader, Sarkozy himself was defiantly unapologetic about the raise or its motives. "I want transparency," Sarkozy declared during a visit in Corsica, referring to the convoluted collection of revenues like advances on paid pensions that have long served to augment French Presidents' modest nominal salary...
...with any love story, the ending makes or breaks all: Will they get together? It is here that Vargas Llosa’s train runs out of steam. For such an unconventional story with such unconventional characters, the ending is painfully banal: the bad girl returns to her schoolboy sweetheart. The bad girl-turned-good ending is wholly uncompelling. “At least admit I’ve given you the subject for a novel. Haven’t I, good boy?” Otilita tritely says at the end. Perhaps she has, but, in her movie-ending...
...public's eyes, skater Dorothy Hamill was "America's sweetheart." In 1976, she was the perky 19-year-old with the famous hairdo - "the wedge" - who won an Olympic gold medal for her dazzling figure skating. Her life seemed to glide as easily as her skates. But as Hamill, now 51 and the mother of a 19-year-old daughter, reveals in her frank new book, A Skating Life: My Story, that behind the scenes, she was in the grip of serious depression, which ran through her family. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Hamill, who was in Minneapolis...
...country's 20th century heroine, because Fernàndez, 54, enjoys being called the "new Evita." She certainly shares some of Eva Pern's passion and combativeness. But in truth, she more resembles a contemporary headliner: Hillary Clinton. Fernàndez, too, married her law-school sweetheart and helped him become the Governor of a small southern province and then President. And like her U.S. counterpart, Fernàndez is a senator who's making a run for the top job on her own record. One big difference: Fernàndez consistently records a 20-percentage-point lead...
...speaker at the coffee giant's AGM, at which he described Starbucks and Rwanda as parts of an "extended family very closely linked by the business we do together and the passion we share." Says Schilling: "It's like this great love affair. Rwanda is becoming America's African sweetheart...