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...sleep in the building. The plan has outraged some politicians in Britain, where, as in Sarkozy's campaign, immigration is a hot issue. Conservative Party immigration spokesman Damian Green has said he fears a fresh stampede of illegal immigrants from a new Calais center. The Calais mayor's spokesman Bernard Barron counters that his city has no choice. "Calais has been abandoned by Europe, by France, by Britain," he says. "We are alone." The same cannot be said of Khodadadi, one of just hundreds camped along the coast, eyeing their dream destination across the Channel...
...that was, however, never implemented), before Tuesday's sanctions announcement. Europe has yet to find clear voice on the conflict. (Tuesday also saw France unveil a plan for an international force to open a humanitarian corridor from eastern Chad into Darfur, but when questioned, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner admitted: "It is only an idea so far ... but it might work.") Meanwhile, Africa and the Arab world offer no way forward, while China - whose oil interests and other investments in Sudan give it substantially more leverage than the U.S. has over Khartoum - has used its veto power in the Security...
...Perhaps most the controversial (though not unexpected) appointment was naming Socialist Bernard Kouchner as Foreign Affairs minister, a move that may reveal the staunchly conservative Sarkozy's intent to give issues like human rights and democratic and financial accountability greater weight in France's international relations. A trained physician, Kouchner founded the M?decins Sans Fronti?res (Doctors Without Borders) relief group in 1971, and used the diplomacy skills he learned in humanitarian crises to launch a political career. Socialist opponents have called Sarkozy's recruitment of Kouchner a ploy to co-opt and thus weaken the left ahead of June legislative...
...Interior Minister, he opposed many in his party by reversing a law that allowed foreign convicts to be deported once they'd served a jail sentence, which amounted to a form of double jeopardy. "If it wasn't for Sarkozy, it wouldn't have happened," says Bernard Bolze, a prisoners' rights advocate otherwise deeply critical of Sarkozy's hard line on crime. Arno Klarsfeld, a lawyer who worked for him when he was Interior Minister, says Sarkozy also faced down Ministry advisers who opposed his policy allowing some illegal immigrants to stay in France if their children were in school...
...team met privately with Imus to discuss his comments). It didn’t matter that these women had worked tirelessly as both students and athletes to make it to this championship game. All that mattered was that they were women; and women, according to Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk, are ultimately just a joke on the basketball court...