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What's the French for "get over it"? Don't bother asking the defenders of France's lovely and beloved language. A decade after the government of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur passed a law requiring the use of French in all government documents, business contracts, restaurant menus and advertisements, the champions of francophonie again have their culottes in a twist over the threat posed by the rampant spread of English. Opposition flared last month over a new proposal to make English instruction compulsory in French schools. Guardians of the language issued a manifesto calling on the E.U. to make French...
...Defend thyself. Despite the conventional wisdom that Democrats have finally learned to respond to the opposition—and despite specific promises from the candidate—for much of the spring and summer, John Kerry failed to rebut the Republican attacks that everyone knew were coming. Rather than decide—following Iowa and New Hampshire victories—to divert twenty percent of his campaign to general election research and planning, Kerry continued to focus exclusively on beating primary challengers he had already defeated. And when the inevitable March deluge of Bush-Cheney liberal/flip-flopper/weak-on-security ads swamped the airwaves...
...terror,” voters have no idea what they will receive from President Bush except more of the same. Which leaves a huge opening for Kerry to argue, as he (finally) did about two weeks ago, that “a president must be able to do both: defend America and fight for the middle class.” And Kerry offers an array of concrete proposals on lowering health care costs, tightening homeland security and improving education that the voters can anticipate, as I do, with unrestrained glee...
...Corners have been a strength for us in the latter half of the season,” Gannon said “It’s something we practice, and it’s really tough to defend against when the shots are accurate...
...Republicans have never said why we’re safer,” audience member Ari S. Ruben ’08 said. “The fact that they have to defend their stance on the war in Iraq speaks volumes on Bush’s credibility...