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...extending Cabinet positions and élite administrative appointments to officials on the left. The President says he is trying to take a bipartisan approach, but right-wingers grouse that he is giving opponents spots they want for themselves. Conservatives have also resisted Sarkozy's ecology-minded tax on carbon emissions and his radical reform of local governing bodies...
Sarkozy's initial response was a cosmetic Cabinet reshuffle, shelving of the carbon tax and a promise of more reforms - albeit only those conservatives support. What he didn't do was admit he'd made mistakes and pledge to be more attentive to criticism. He might have...
...didn't back down, who could herd cats, who was not merely intellectual and idealistic but tough enough to force his way. This is bound to change the landscape of American politics. It makes significant progress on other issues - financial reform, immigration, perhaps even the reduced use of carbon fuels - more plausible. It may give Obama new stature overseas, in a world that was beginning to wonder about his ability to use power. Of course, if he doesn't carefully read the lessons of this excruciating passage, it could lead to hubris and overreach. The President's weaknesses - his isolation...
Levitt’s speech elicited diverse reactions from the audience. Diego Ibarra, a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Design, said he thought Levitt’s solutions for climate change presented moral problems because, he said, they would increase carbon emissions, which are the root cause of climate change...
...family members are not clear." The child victims of murder-suicides in the West are typically killed in violent attacks, as one partner's way of taking revenge on the other. In Asia, on the other hand, parents leap together with their children or succumb arm in arm to carbon monoxide inhalation in a kind of ghastly euthanasia...