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Among politiblogs, Ana Marie Cox, above, has long—in cyberterms anyway—reigned as queen. Her bawdy take on Washington made WONKETTE a must read. But with her novel Dog Days out and a big country to shill to, it was time to abdicate. Her successors: Alex Pareene, a sometime guest editor at GAWKER, and former Assistant U.S. Attorney David Lat, who had secretly written the blawg UNDERNEATH THEIR ROBES in the guise of a lusty, law-loving female. Lat quit his government job last month and trumpeted his new gig by blogging, "You can't keep a good [wo]man down!"

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Open quoteIn the big companies, no-one wants to renegotiate the 35-hours and re-open Pandora's Box.Close quote

  • PHILIPPE JAEGER,
  • of the CFE-CGC union, on Nicolas Sarkozy's new law that allows companies to short-circuit France's compulsory 35-hour working week