The Yahoo kiss-off came ahead of President Hollande's announcement Monday of capital-gains tax breaks, special visas for foreign entrepreneurs and other measures designed to promote investment.
In 2011, she's still young enough to pull off gleefully bratty kiss-offs like ''Einstein, '' on which she does the math for a no-good boyfriend: ''Dumb plus dumb equals you.
"There are a lot of candidates who get completely run down, and they have to take a week off - and that's the kiss of death, " says Richard Ben Cramer, author of What it Takes: The Way to the White House.