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...utilities to buy all their carbon permits after 2012. (Currently, most European governments give their permits away; selling them should speed carbon reductions and boost alternative-energy development but will cost more.) Those proposals still need to be voted on by the full European Parliament and individual governments. But French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently holds the rotating E.U. presidency, insists the goals will be met. "Climate change is so important that we cannot use the financial and economic crisis as a pretext for dropping it," he says. In Britain, where Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been a leader...
...have 24 people who are always there for you. When I would go on the ice, every time, I would be playing for the people who were my teammates rather than just playing for my own purposes.”It was tri-captain Sarah Vaillancourt, a French-speaking native of Quebec, who really helped Ryabkina adjust to both the Crimson game and the Harvard way of life. “[Vaillancourt] played a huge role not just on the ice, hockey-wise, but in my everyday life too…She understands me in the way that...
...Tutsis and moderate Hutus during the Rwanda genocide. Both Hutu and Tutsi groups are remnants of refugee militias that fled to Congo during and after the genocidal conflicts in Rwanda. "This is a massacre such as Africa has probably never seen, which is taking place virtually before our eyes," French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told Europe 1 radio before departing Paris for DRC on Friday...
Meriweather H. Burruss ’11 is on a tight schedule. Not only does she have a french test, ski team practice, and dinner plans with her dad, but she is also part of FM’s Fast Fashion Challenge...
...parties and cheap beer head home. Centuries of sieges, plagues and political intrigues leave a catalogue of spine-chilling tales: screams emanating from the "Maiden's" tower on the edge of the high town where prostitutes in the Middle Ages were once imprisoned; spectral wanderings of a French mercenary who fought for the Danes and skinned his prisoners alive. There is even a 'Ghosts' St., a desolate alleyway in a corner of the town only recently lit at night...