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...Bush Administration toward a weaker U.N. resolution on Iraq; he bushwhacked would-be reformers of the E.U.'s costly Common Agricultural Policy (cap), thus preserving lucrative subsidies for French farmers. In September he sent troops to Africa to prop up a threatened regime in France's former colony, Ivory Coast. These days, Chirac is riding the range with even more gusto than the Texan in the White House. The man does not lack confidence. Chirac wants France - and himself - to be seen as an alternative to American power. Like his hero Charles de Gaulle before him, Chirac is not afraid...
...attempting to get children to stop wearing visors,” he says of his God Loves Ugly tour, currently roaming the East Coast. “Sometimes they wear them upside down. We gotta get kids to stop wearing them; they’re ridiculous.” With the growing audience the Minnesotan emcee now commands, such a noble cause may yet come to fruition...
Some professors say they won’t let student contact be the factor in the equation that is diminished to make room for time for being a public intellectual. MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker, whom FM tracked down on the West Coast in the midst of a six-week tour to promote his new book, The Blank Slate, says he makes a point of answering students’ e-mails on the same day that he receives them. But still, as Pinker admits, in order to be an effective public intellectual, “something?...
...would be unfortunate if it was an absence of anti-Yankee vitriol that caused fewer people to watch the World Series this year. It’s true that the games, played three time zones away on the other coast, could seem remote to anyone who does not live in California. But the contests were marked by moments of clutch hitting, including the double Angels cleanup hitter Garret Anderson belted to right field in game seven, and of high human drama, as when J. T. Snow deftly scooped Giants manager Dusty Baker’s three-year-old son from...
...This game was frustrating,” Ludwick said. “We did play well and showed we could be one of the best on the East coast...