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...high improbability of all 27 E.U. members voting in an identical measure. Even Sarkozy's own allies are questioning the President's logic. "If we wait for Europe to make a decision, the carbon tax will be put off indefinitely," lamented Sarkozy's Secretary of State for Ecology Chantal Jouanno in the daily Libération Thursday. "I despair this stand-down, and I despair that ecolo-skepticism has won out." (Read "Sarkozy Stands by France's Hated Immigration Minister...
...first downpour of Haiti's rainy season came on Feb. 17, Ash Wednesday, a day when Christians ponder their mortality. Most Haitians are Roman Catholic, but they hardly needed the reminder - not after the Jan. 12 earthquake that killed more than 200,000 of them. Marie Chantal, a baker who is living in a vast and squalid shantytown on the Champs de Mars park in downtown Port-au-Prince, says the rain that leaked through her makeshift tent on Wednesday night made her grieve more for the two children she lost in the quake when their house collapsed. To comfort...
...least be refreshingly blunt. For all his dreams about an agri-boom on Haiti's central plateau, he's quick to note that "our goal at the moment isn't to escape poverty. It's to escape misery so we can get back to poverty." Haitians like Marie Chantal would agree: they'd gladly take back their lives of poverty - with at least lace curtains in the windows - than face the misery raining down on them...
...vocal theatrics prized by Randy Jackson for solid, conventional country music written by hardened Nashville pros like Josh Kear and Hillary Lindsey. “Play On,” by contrast, features the talents of a murderer’s row of pop songwriters: Max Martin, Savan Kotecha, Chantal Kreviazuk and—now it all begins to fall into place—”American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi. DioGuardi is partially responsible for “Mama’s Song,” a toe-curling piece of moralizing that, along with...
...This stability and growth has attracted local and international investors, and even expat Colombians are going home to get in on the action," says Chantal McLaughlin, an editor for Suzanne's Files, a travel, dining and lifestyle website. "A host of new upscale boutique hotels and restaurants have opened there recently, and more are under construction, many in renovated historic town houses...