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...take five years," Parent says, "to more ambitious and more rapid ones that run the risk of being a complete failure." That's typically French. In Germany and Scandinavia, change happens after considered debate and lengthy analysis. In France, by contrast, it tends to be convulsive and born of conflict: one violent leap backward followed by two surreptitious steps forward. It's Houdini, not Thatcher. "If you only think of reform in terms of the Big Night, you'll never get anywhere," says Jean-François Copé, the government minister officially charged with reform of the state...
...clear to my allies that if there's a break in the coalition, I have no other alternative but to go back to the voters. No one wants to lose their job, or cede the power they've acquired. You have vowed to pass measures to address Berlusconi's conflict of interest as owner of Italy's three main private television channels. Will you force him to choose between politics and owning TV? I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta. But a simple antitrust law is where we must start. Democracies must...
...CHALLENGE The problem with Superman is that he doesn't have enough problems. He can pretty much do anything-dude has superbreath-and apart from the kryptonite thing, he's pretty much invulnerable. And oh, my stars, what a do-gooder. Where's the inner conflict? Or the outer conflict, for that matter? He's not dark and troubled like Batman or Wolverine, or cute and clueless like Spider...
...Hopes had been raised on Friday that the conflict might be at an end after the King went on TV to offer to hand over power to a prime minister chosen by the seven parties that have been spearheading the protests against him. However, the parties today rejected the King's offer, saying that it did not meet their basic demands, which include holding elections for a special parliament to write a new constitution for Nepal that would turn the King into a ceremonial figure...
Echaveste claimed that the immigration debate currently taking place is just another example of a historic conflict between America’s economic interest for foreign workers and its reluctance to admit them as citizens. She pointed out that the US initially encouraged Chinese immigration in order to help build the railways, but then passed the Chinese Exclusion Act during the 1890’s in response to fears of the cultural impact of the migration. “For centuries,” she said, “Americans have been asking themselves ‘who gets...