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...announce reform for it to be as good as done - that his word and desired results were one and the same," says Denis Muzet, president of Médiascopie, a public-opinion research institute in Paris. "Since last January, however, people have not only begun complaining it's all gesticulation with little real result, but that the reforms themselves are clashing in nature, illegible in content, and often harmful in what they achieve. They see no ideological coherence ... in Sarkozy's reform or leadership...
...preached the gospel of "moralizing capitalism"? Is he the man, a son of a Hungarian immigrant, who, newly elected, challenged French pretense of color-blind égalité by arguing for American-style affirmative action? Or is he the leader who, facing critical regional elections next March, has begun openly courting voters of the extreme-right National Front with a crackdown on illegal aliens and a divisive national debate on immigration and French identity? (See pictures of Bastille Day celebrations...
...India. A four-day strike is under way among the picturesque hills and tea estates of Darjeeling, in northern West Bengal, with protesters intensifying demands for a new state of Gorkhaland that would better address the needs of the area's ethnic Nepalese population. More than 100 activists have begun what they call a "fast-unto-death." On the other side of the country, in the vast desert state of Rajasthan, a caravan of some 5,000 demonstrators and 500 camels paraded into the capital of Jaipur on Friday, agitating for the formation of Maru Pradesh, a state that would...
...explains why, when it comes to the big-time college game, I root and always will root for Notre Dame. But I'm embarrassed by the Fighting Irish these days. Not because they just finished another disappointing season; but because their unseemly desperation to find a coaching messiah has begun to taint the image of one of America's best universities. Now that an expensive new savior has been anointed - Brian Kelly, who replaces the expensive failed savior Charlie Weis - here's an urgent message for Notre Dame's football faithful: Let it go. The glory days are gone...
...recent weeks, Obama has begun to talk more about the debt, admitting in an interview with Fox News that too much spending could yield a loss of confidence in the U.S. and a "double-dip recession." At Brookings, Obama copped to trying to "spend our way out of this recession in the near term" but also announced that "one of the central goals of this Administration is restoring fiscal responsibility...