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...become French. Both feel warm about America but cool toward President George W. Bush. Neither gets emotional over the idea of European unity, preferring to see what works - and what doesn't. Their natures, too, are similar: both are impatient, often short-tempered and, say their critics, sometimes authoritarian. Yet both have had to bide their time and, to their evident frustration, wait their turn to assume power...
...seeking to establish tighter citizenship criteria for immigrants. Both feel warm about the U.S. but are cool toward President Bush. Neither gets emotional over the idea of European unity, preferring to see what works--and what doesn't. Both are impatient, often short-tempered and, say their critics, sometimes authoritarian. And both have had to wait their turn to assume power. Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank, says Sarkozy, Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel could create a dynamic team at Europe's core. All three, he says, "are Atlanticist, economically liberal...
...given rising demand from China and India. That gives oil-producing autocracies such as Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Sudan and now Nigeria more money to crush or buy off internal dissent. And it makes it easier for them to win friends and influence people around the world. A decade ago, authoritarian governments were largely on the defensive. Today Venezuela's Hugo Chávez is cloning himself in Bolivia and Ecuador. And Iran is on the verge of dominating the Middle East...
...feted the victor at Place de la Concorde. Soon radicals in other French cities followed suit, resulting in what police tallied as, 730 cars torched, 78 cops wounded, and nearly 600 rioters arrested nationwide. On Monday night, marches in Paris against what protestors denounced as Sarkozy's hard-right, authoritarian and anti-immigrant policies swelled to up to 500, ultimately degenerating into clashes with police as they dispersed near Bastille. By midnight, nearly 100 had been arrested after trashing property in the area. Similar protests broke out in other French cities both nights, with violent altercations and arrests occurring...
...Yeltsin had moments that made one believe Russia could shed its authoritarian shackles. His defining moment was in August 1991. While Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev was summering in the Crimea, dark forces opposed to Gorbachev and his stop-start reforms tried to stage a coup. Yeltsin's political instincts were still sharp, and he raced to the scene, outside Russia's White House. He climbed atop a tank and urged defiance. The putsch failed. Gorby returned to Moscow, but when he declared his unshaken faith in the Soviet state, Russia was Yeltsin's. By Christmas, the U.S.S.R. was done...