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...tempted to agree. In the space of several weeks, Sarkozy's previously commanding leadership has come under fire from all directions. The French public appears to have had more than enough of his flashy, over-exposed private life. His highly touted economic reforms have so far largely failed to bear fruit. His approval ratings have plunged at a dizzying speed. Now many conservative candidates are looking to distance themselves from Sarkozy as they campaign for next month's municipal elections...
Some of you probably disagree with this. “I am in a happy relationship,” you say, feeling smugly superior. You send your significant other a teddy bear on Facebook to show just how wrong...
...grips with our unique cultural context. First, the fact is that we are among the first generations to be raised in a society saturated by the mass media (and the often jarring images they convey), and this cannot be understated. How else can we explain our capacity to bear witness to such terrible things without ever taking political action? We seem appallingly able to witness devastating crimes on the television and then go back to pleasant dinner conversation, almost without blinking...
...when teachers and students at over 1,500 campuses gathered to discuss global warming - and find a solution. It was less a protest that a nationwide seminar - albeit one that included the occasional colorful stunt, like the student from University of California, San Diego, who dressed as a polar bear and sat in a mock electric chair, to illustrate how global warming could speed extinction. The message was clear: Global warming is not a problem for tomorrow, but today, and students need to take the lead. "We owe our young people a choice, because this will affect the rest...
...identified the bombers, but members of two groups - the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the al-Aqsa Brigades - jointly claimed credit for the suicide bombing and released videos of two supposed bombers. But one Israeli official says the faces in the video seem to bear no resemblance to the dead bombers. Abou Fouad, an al Aqsa Brigades spokesman, told a press conference in Gaza that "the attack had been planned for a month, but was only made possible after gunmen bombed the fence...