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...shows attacks and threats to Arabs rising from 164 in 2003 to 256 for the first six months of 2004 - about double the recent annual average. "The explosion of racist and anti-Semitic acts in our nation is a reality we mustn't try to hide," government spokesman Jean-François Copé said last week. "It's a reality we must fight." To do so, France must gain a better understanding of who the victims and perpetrators of these attacks are. Statistics show that since 2000, France's 650,000-strong Jewish community has been the primary target...
...already announced plans to axe 5,000 tax inspectors. For an élite group of French men and women, the most egregious tax is the "solidarity tax on fortunes," probably the world's broadest tax on wealth, rather than income. Enacted in its current form in 1988 under François Mitterrand, the tax is a levy on anyone whose worldwide assets exceed €720,000. That means the values of stock and bonds, bank accounts, real estate - even personal belongings. About 300,000 French citizens and residents are subject to it, and it causes some talented taxpayers to flee...
...French counterterrorism official. The French say Arif, a veteran of Afghan and Chechen camps, is implicated in a foiled December 2000 plot to bomb the Christmas market outside Strasbourg Cathedral. Arif's alleged role involved recruiting, organizing and oversight. French antiterror magistrates Jean-Louis Bruguière and Jean-François Ricard are also holding Arif for alleged similar involvement with a Chechen-trained group arrested outside Paris in December 2002 that is suspected of planning a chemical-bomb attack. "Arif's activities and associates span from Azerbaijan to England ," the French official says. "Getting hold...
After Harvard’s final game of the season against Penn, Quaker coach Fran Dunphy explained that for a young team like the Crimson, one bounce can change the course of a season. Sadly, it wasn’t just one, but many bounces that failed to go the Crimson?...
...first place. "Marriage has been a tragedy for heterosexuals," argues Vittorio Sgarbi, a gay marriage supporter and former Italian Culture Ministry official. Ségolène Royal, a French Socialist seen by many as a possible presidential candidate in 2007 (who lives, unmarried, with Socialist Party first secretary François Hollande and their four children), has avoided taking a position on the debate, which she says has taken "a disproportional place in relation to the central concerns of the French." She has said, however, that she finds it "paradoxical" that homosexuals would want to claim the right...