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...choosing Palin, McCain excited conservatives, bolstered his standing in red states, put Democrats on the defensive and revolutionized the campaign narrative. For now, cherchez la femme trumps "change you can believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Page | 9/11/2008 | See Source »

...blue to match the road signs, were important in England, says Kate Burns, Google's managing director of U.K. sales. "One thing we've learned as a company is to act locally and to treat each market as idiosyncratically as its demands," she says. As they say in France, "Cherchez la ? pizza?" Lower Taxes, Faster Tracks Low-cost airlines are not the ultimate word in cheap transport, it turns out. EasyJet has halted its twice-daily flights from Paris to Marseilles because the discounter was losing a battle for customers with the French railways. The high-speed TGV train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bizwatch | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

...music video channels with the leggy Ms. Mariah; 2) signing Michael Jackson to Sony Records for an obscene amount of money (since which time, due to various factors, Jackson's sales have declined steadily); 3) being mentioned in the first line of the wonderfully tacky disco hit "Cherchez la Femme" (1976) by Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mrs. Mottola Nobody Knows | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

...cherchez la femme hasn't worked, maybe following the money trail will. Maybe. The House Judiciary Committee decision to look into alleged fundraising irregularities in President Clinton's 1996 campaign is beginning to look like an impeachment inquiry in search of a crime."It appears there's no strategy or plan," says TIME Washington Correspondent Viveca Novak. "Everyone is looking for leadership from either incoming Speaker Bob Livingston or retiring Speaker Newt Gingrich, but so far they haven't stepped up to the plate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Judiciary Committee Hopes Money Talks | 12/2/1998 | See Source »

Rousseau's Dog manages to teach painlessly. Kennedy's delight shows through her writing, as in the punny title of her introductory chapter, "Cherchez Le Chien." Most of all, the thesis surprises its reader constantly. Kennedy does not stop with Rousseau's dog, or even his urinary tract; her irreverence continues into the modern era, with her bizarre discussion of Allan Bloom's desire to revive the homosexual relationships between teachers and students of ancient Greece...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: Every Dog Must Have Its Day | 5/10/1995 | See Source »

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