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...failure to generate jobs or mend the social fracture between the country's affluent classes and its disgruntled masses. Voters put the opposition Socialists in charge of 20 of France's 21 mainland regions, up from 8 in 1998. "France has clearly expressed a demand for a more social approach," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for the Study of French Political Life at Sciences Po in Paris. "Borloo is the response." Raffarin dutifully resigned after the right's rout at the polls, but Chirac opted to renominate him and install Nicolas Sarkozy, the most ambitious figure...
...bitter battle to rationalize the system--shows how far America has yet to go in establishing something called homeland security. With no clear direction from the feds, state officials have been engaged in a perverse competition for antiterrorism dollars. The Bush Administration recently proposed a far more risk-based approach for 2005 funding, but rural-state Senators are balking now that they have had three years to get accustomed to their cash. In some ways, it is a familiar story: of state officials understandably guarding their piece of the pie, of rural localities getting disproportionate help from the government...
Homeland Security officials insist their approach makes sense, and point out that it has become more risk-based. "We're in the risk-management business here. We know the potential for a mass-casualty attack is not evenly divided," says Josh Filler, the department's director for state and local coordination. "We still believe everybody needs that baseline level of funding, but beyond that, we want to focus." Instead of implementing a risk-based model itself for the 60% of its budget that is discretionary, however, the department is waiting for Congress to do it. Explains a senior department official...
Remarkably, Warren has managed to spread his approach to the gospel without extensive national media coverage or a TV ministry. He turned down an invitation from Oprah to be on her show, though he says he'd like to meet her someday. "Too many ministers start out as servants and end up as celebrities," he says. "I want to use my influence to do some good, and I can get more done out of the limelight...
...that without putting your caregiver on the defensive? One approach, suggests Dr. Carolyn Clancy, director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, "might be to say, 'I've read that it's important for health-care professionals to wash their hands frequently--and that doctors are so busy they sometimes forget.'" It probably helps to smile when you say that...