Since her appointment, last May, she has campaigned against les violences obstétricales — painful or traumatizing procedures that women undergo during childbirth, including unnecessary episiotomies.
The National Front was now "the only force of opposition in our country".To her detractors, Ms Le Pen's appointment was bitter confirmation of the boss's dynasticism.
Ariane Bernard (NYT) Correction: December 15, 2004, Wednesday Because of an editing error, a report in the World Briefing column yesterday about Le Monde's appointment of Gérard Courtois as editor in chief referred incorrectly to the status of his predecessor, Edwy Plenel.
Le Monde warned after his appointment: "His talent for theatrics is well known, but it remains to be seen how much talent he has in international diplomacy".
Ms. Kauffmann called her appointment "the final stage of an evolution" for Le Monde but noted that her sex "was not the deciding factor".
While neither Le Monde nor The Huffington Post directly announced the appointment of Ms. Sinclair, a well-known TV journalist in France, they sent out a notice Wednesday inviting reporters to the introduction of "Le Huffington Post" on Monday.
"At the slightest threat, like a bullfighter, Manuel Valls straightens up, his eyes burn and he enters the arena proudly" - so wrote France's conservative daily Le Figaro in a commentary after his appointment as prime minister.
From 1897, however, his career revived, with the success of his operetta Les p'tites Michu at the Bouffes-Parisiens, his appointment in 1898 as musical director of the Opéra-Comique, and the outstanding success of Véronique (1898).
"Le Matin" was the first symphony that Haydn wrote after his appointment as music director of Prince Esterhazy's court.
There seem to be more twists in the saga over the appointment of a rugby performance director at Twickenham than there are in a John le Carré novel, a consequence, perhaps, of fact becoming blurred with fiction.
That's a big source of stress," C.N. Le, a senior lecturer (a contingent faculty member with a stable though "indefinite" appointment) at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recently told The Chronicle of Higher Education.
