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...combs out her second-grader's hair. She knows she's in for a 45-min. search-and-destroy mission. She's irritated by the knowledge that she's bound to miss a few of the tiny things and will have to go through the entire process again in a couple of days. Now think of the second-grader's hair washed in Dr. Spiesel's shampoo, which was developed in response to a head-lice epidemic in the day-care center he serves as pediatrician. The nits would light up so brightly that pilots could...
Another word for that may be pragmatism. In fact, the politicians are no longer in control of the process. One reason is that political and business elites have been discredited in a decade of financial scandals. Since the early 1990s, at least 30 prominent figures of all political stripes, including former Cabinet ministers and corporate CEOs, have been investigated for offenses ranging from influence peddling and embezzlement to illegal party funding and bribery. The judicial independence evident in this sweeping cleanup is one of the most striking aspects of the new France; such investigations would have been quashed under...
Another major reason for the powerlessness of the politicians is the morphing of the old Paris-centered France into a more complex, decentralized nation. A keen observer of this process is U.S. Ambassador to France Felix Rohatyn, who has set up five new American diplomatic posts in various cities in response to it. "I saw that the combination of the euro and the single European market, and the elimination of frontiers, was inevitably going to lead to a decentralization and increase the importance of regional centers and cities as they created their own alliances," says Rohatyn. "More and more businesses...
...latest proposal, however, may present as many problems as it solves. U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Stuart Eizenstat voiced "serious concerns with both the substance and process" of the directive, arguing that "the unintended implications of the...proposal are not worth the short-term tax revenues that may result." Among other things, he said, the new law could result in a higher tax on books delivered online than those bought in a bookstore. Ken Wasch, president of Europe's Software & Information Industry Association, called the directive "simply unenforceable." Guido de Wit, a VAT tax expert with a Brussels law firm, notes...
...brothers were shocked that they weren't going to be as involved in the business. If we had all just sat down and discussed everyone's needs and expectations, we might have been able to structure things differently and without such hurt feelings." Marshall-Chapman is in the process of buying out the minority shares of one of her brothers, and time has healed some of the wounds in the family...