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...time when the market is quiet. In May, both Dior and Chanel invested in full-scale runway shows in New York City and Los Angeles, respectively. Chanel's elaborate presentation at a private hangar at the Santa Monica airport included a host of camera-friendly celebrities like a pre--Memorial Day rehab Lindsay Lohan, Victoria Beckham and Demi Moore, plus two Challenger 601 jets that carried the models right onto the "runway...
Nevertheless, election night held an unpleasant surprise for Sarkozy: the stunning defeat of conservative heavyweight Alain Juppe, who as Environment, Transport, and Sustainable Energy Minister was number two in Sarkozy's pre-election government. Juppe's failure to win a legislative seat leaves his political future in grave doubt...
...overzealous Evangelical Christian in Saved and an overzealous reality show contestant in American Dreamz. New Projects: Now she's ready to be extraordinary - or at least that's what she sings on the first single from her new album, Wild Hope, due June 19. Moore will also endure pre-marital counseling by Robin Williams in her July film with John Krasinski, License to Wed. Good girl factoid: She decided she wanted to be a singer after watching Oklahoma...
There's a lot to recommend this view. For starters, it gets jihadism right. Al-Qaeda-- style terrorism does stem more from state breakdown than state power. (Compare pre- and post-Saddam Iraq.) The weak-state concept also makes Democratic foreign policy broader than its Republican equivalent. In Bush-esque speeches this spring, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani tried--unconvincingly--to cram virtually all of American foreign policy into the war on terror. Weak states, by contrast, offer Democrats a prism that isn't confined to the Islamic world...
...middle class-that is, people who make up to 400% of the federal poverty level-would have their health-insurance payments subsidized on a sliding scale according to income. The second mandate would require insurance companies to cover everyone who applies and charge them the same amount, regardless of pre-existing conditions. (This is called "community rating" in the trade...