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...many books, which I suppose wasn’t really a problem—we didn’t read most of them. Ironically enough, the only one that I—one of just two black males in the class—ended up reading was Jewish author Bernard Malamud’s 1957 novel “The Assistant,” while my very Jewish friend read “Invisible Man” by black author Ralph Ellison. My pal claimed that Malamud’s novel was too boring and depressing. This summer...
...have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war.' BERNARD KOUCHNER, French Foreign Minister, pressing for tougher sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. Kouchner has since accused the media of distorting his statement...
...BERNARD KOUCHNER, French Foreign Minister, pressing for tougher sanctions against Iran's nuclear program. Kouchner has since accused the media of distorting his statement...
...Recent tough talk by Sarkozy was ratcheted up last weekend by his foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, who urged the world to prepare for war against Iran. He later insisted that he meant simply that war was the worst possible outcome but that the failure of diplomatic pressure to dissuade Iran from enriching uranium would make war inevitable. To underscore the point, French Prime Minister Francois Fillon added Monday, "The Iranians must understand that tension has reached an extreme point ... in the relationship [with] its neighbors...
...undermined by the war in Iraq. But to his critics in France and abroad, Sarkozy's reinvigorated Atlanticism looks disturbingly similar to the views of Washington hard-liners, including those hankering for a military strike to take out Iran's nuclear development program. On Sept. 16, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner warned that the international community had to "prepare for the worst" in its negotiations with Tehran - and that "the worst is war." That declaration came just one month after Sarkozy himself offered his own stark assessment of the two choices at hand - "an Iranian bomb and a bombardment...