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...start with concrete measures such as reintroducing community policing and ramping up eduction initiatives. Talk alone won't work in the banlieues. "Project residents aren't impressed with Sarkozy's flash and flair and won't confuse it with hard, lasting results," warns political analyst Dominique Reynié. "He's in for a long, hard slog--or more rioting if nothing changes...
...problem isn't what he's saying, it's that he's made such a reputation for being defiant and provocative that many people will interpret this as him baiting the projects as he did in 2005," says Dominque Reynié, a political analyst and professor at the Foundation of Political Science in Paris. "No one has any sympathy for the thugs behind these riots, but Sarkozy might have been wiser to show his support of the police in a lower-profile manner. Whether it's fair to do so or not, were rioting to break out again now, lots...
Which brings us back to the real question: Is Facebook worth $15 billion? If it goes public sometime next year, as is widely expected, potential investors need to ask, "How big can Facebook grow?" says Internet analyst Bob Peck of Bear Stearns, who pegged Facebook's value at $6 billion in August. "You want to buy low expectations," says David Trainer, president of the business-valuation firm New Constructs. Google went public amid widespread skepticism, but Facebook has been anointed by its boosters as the next Google, despite MySpace's bigger audience and deeper pockets. As is always the case...
While many assume Howard's status as Prime Minister will save him on his own northern Sydney seat even if the Government is defeated, others see it differently. "There's nothing special about Bennelong," says election analyst Antony Green. "If the Government falls, my view is that Bennelong will fall with it." Having made history in so many personally gratifying ways as the country's second longest-serving Prime Minister, Howard may depart politics in circumstances that would surely leave him hollow - paired with the long-forgotten Stanley Bruce as the only Australian P.M. to lose his seat...
...That may not seem like a significant distinction, but political analyst Dominique Moïsi says that absence of personal enrichment is important to a French public that might, if matters proceed, "see a difference between corruption for personal gain, and breaking rules on party financing...