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...D?j? vu is, of course, a French concept, and it?s happening all over again this week as students battle police outside the Sorbonne in Paris' Latin Quarter. This week?s escalating conflict doesn?t have the same breadth or resonance as the famed riots of May 1968, when French students dug up cobblestones and tossed them at the police. But the problems it presents to the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, and what it says about France's continuing struggles to rein in its welfare state, are more than academic...
...three years ago the Bush Administration went to the Security Council to make a circumstantial case against Iraq's weapons program that turned out to be a prelude to Operation Iraqi Freedom. After talks on Iran in Washington last week, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, "It looks so d?j? vu, you know...
When fabled Houston defense attorney Dick DeGuerin strode into an Austin courthouse last week to defend Congressman Tom DeLay, he quoted Yogi Berra, asserting that this would be "d?j? vu all over again." Given the trouncing DeGuerin had handed Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle 12 years ago in their last big face-off, few observers doubted this would be a battle royale. But no one anticipated it would be d?j? vu so quickly...
Longtime observers of the Middle East could be forgiven for experiencing a moment of d?j? vu in the spectacle of Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas declaring an end to hostilities in an Arab Red Sea port on Tuesday. The Sharm el-Sheik summit repeated many of the themes echoed by the two men when they met 18 months ago at the Jordanian port of Aqaba, and the resulting truce, was, then as now, hailed as a new beginning. That deal collapsed within weeks, and many of the factors that contributed to its demise have not been fundamentally altered...
...military action that would be opposed by most of the international community. And last week's allegations by outgoing Secretary of State Powell that Iran was developing nuclear-capable missile warheads - reportedly based on a single intelligence source whose credibility could not be confirmed - simply highlighted the sense of d?j?...