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...Amara wasn't the only leftist cabinet member to take a swipe at the controversial legislation. High Commissioner for Social Solidarity Martin Hirsch also decried an article in the law banning illegal aliens from emergency homeless shelters. In contrast to Amara's emotional denunciation of the law, Hirsch said he remained confident of convincing parliamentarians to amend the text during its final reading in parliament...
...repeatedly pledged a "rupture" with the past habits, attitudes and endless calculating that have frozen so many of his country's previous governments into virtual immobility. One area he's done just that is in assembling his government under the ideologically blind policy of "ouverture" - the "opening" of cabinet posts to erstwhile leftists opponents whose talents Sarkozy believes will serve the nation well. But while initially applauded by many pundits for ignoring traditional hostilities that have previously made bipartisan governments impossible in France, there are now signs that Sarkozy's political pragmatism is being undermined by the all too common...
...Sarkozy's return to hard reality, where essentials won't turn around and pick up with a rousing performance or deft spin of events," says Dominique Reynié, a political analyst at the Foundation of Political Sciences in Paris. "His initial successes involved passing tougher immigration law, opening up cabinet posts to leftist politicians, raising France's profile in international affairs - all things that produce big headlines, but whose real impact are hard to measure. And with economic worries now overtaking that earlier buzz, I think it's fair to say Sarkozy has failed in his biggest early goal: creating...
...first in five years, opens in Beijing on Oct. 15. More than 2,000 party members will gather for a few days of factional maneuvering and backroom deals. New policies will be adopted and new appointments made to the Standing Committee of the Politburo--the nine-member inner Cabinet of China--but so opaque are China's politics that the tea-leaf readers will be busy for years. "Even when you know the names and positions of the new appointments," says a Western diplomat in Beijing who tracks Chinese politics, "you still have to wait for policy changes...
...comparisons to Blair. These comparisons once sounded flattering but later, as Blair lost popularity, mutated into taunts; even some members of his own party dismissed Cameron as a bantamweight Blair who would be hopelessly outclassed by the heavyweight Brown. Just before the Tory conference kicked off, Lord Tebbitt, a Cabinet minister in Margaret Thatcher's government, remarked, dismissively, that Cameron had "no experience of the world...