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...loudest cracks yet to ring out from Sarkozy's bipartisan plank of "ouverture" came Tuesday morning, when Secretary of State for Urban Affairs Fadela Amara lashed out at controversial immigration legislation awaiting final passage in parliament. If everything goes exactly to schedule, the law is expected to be passed on October 23. Amara used the undiplomatic term "degueulasse" - combining elements of "sickening" and "disgusting" - to describe an article of the law introducing DNA testing of certain new foreign residents to France and the storage of that data. Amara similarly denounced the law for allowing race to be noted in census...
...daughter of immigrants myself, I'm saying people are fed up of seeing immigration exploited whenever a specific [political]objective arises," Amara told France Inter radio of the DNA testing...
...your life validated by the Maharishi. Or get good drugs at fire-sale prices. This could have ended up as a Midnight Express nightmare, except that the Whitman boys' luck is a little better, a little weirder. One of them finds romance with a train hostess (lovely Amara Karan). Two of them save local children from drowning. They meet up with their mother (Anjelica Huston) - the source, we soon realize, of some of the boys' bad habits...
...island that already has five shiny hotels-and will have a Norman Foster-designed resort when it opens in 2008-Amara Sanctuary Resort, amarasanctuary.com, aims to offer something different: a sense of history. Sentosa, a small island getaway 15 minutes from downtown Singapore, was a British military fortress during World War II, and the 121-room Amara has housed itself in two former barracks. You'll be surprised at just how comfy they can be when someone besides an army engineer is in charge of the design. Two colonial-era buildings above an air-raid shelter are now home...
...With seven restaurants and bars, dining options are plentiful for a development of relatively modest size. Try the lovely Sibon, a 13-seat Japanese kushiage, or skewer restaurant. Its owner, Masaki Miyake, was Amara Sanctuary's architect. His decision to build the resort around century-old trees accounts for the lush ambiance and the feeling that, in tiny Singapore, one really has traveled somewhere. Tourists after an alternative to the usual downtown hotels, as well as Singaporeans looking for a domestic break, will thank...