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Sarkozy also wants to reform pensions and liberalize the labor market - always explosive issues. His objectives for the next 100 days on hot topics like immigration, justice and education are popular, but the social context he'll be facing won't be favorable. His first major electoral test will be French municipal elections next March, when the Socialists could recapture strategic cities like Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Rouen and Caen. Before then, Sarkozy counts on demonstrating the left's weakness, which he can do only as the young General Bonaparte did upon becoming First Consul: by portraying each new battle...
...looks a mess--funny in the context of the film; not so, given Wilson's hospitalization on Aug. 26 for what was described as a slashed-wrist suicide attempt. Instead of walking the red carpet in Venice, reportedly the actor was in his Santa Monica home under 24-hour watch by friends and family...
...CONTEXT The techie slang was developed in the 1980s by hackers who wanted to communicate on the sly. Now online gamers and everyday users have picked...
...looks a mess - funny, in the context of the film; not so, given Wilson's hospitalization a week ago for what was described as a slashed-wrist suicide attempt. The actor was released Saturday and is in his Santa Monica home, People.com reported, under 24-hour watch by friends and family, instead of on the red carpet in Venice...
...religion and an ideological cold war. Interviewed last week at the band's studio in Gemmayze, a formerly working-class neighborhood of garages and crumbling townhouses that's become ground zero for Beirut's young and restless, Haber places the Beirut rock scene in a wider Mideast cultural context: "At the end of the day, sex, drugs, and rock and roll means freedom...