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Though historically sympathetic to strike movements, most French voters firmly back Sarkozy in this clash with unions. After all, he was elected on an overt promise of sweeping change, giving him greater reformist legitimacy than his more cautious predecessors. Despite the disruption that the recent strikes have caused - and the prospect that they will drag on - polls show Sarkozy holding steady with a 55% approval rating. Yet a further test of will comes on Nov. 20, when hundreds of thousands of state employees are scheduled to protest over 22,000 public-sector job cuts slated for 2008. And more antireform...
...were to create a model for Globalization Man, he'd look a lot like Francois Woo. Woo's surname and taste for Cantonese food reflect his family's origins, three generations ago, in Guangdong province in southern China. His first name and French accent reflect the European culture of his adopted home on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius. His children are at college in Perth, Boston and, soon, London. And his $200 million-per-year business is a microcosm of globalization in action. It buys raw cotton from Asia and Africa, ships it to Mauritius, spins it into yarn...
...strongly encouraged by, the prime ministership (1991-96) of Paul Keating, a brilliant and abrasive Laborite much feared for his insults ("pansies" and "unrepresentative swill" were among the milder epithets he launched at his foes in parliamentary debate) and greatly misunderstood for his tastes: given his passions for antique French clocks and Georgian furniture, Keating was the most cultivated Australian ever to serve as Prime Minister. The movement's chief unelected backer was a formidable young merchant banker named Malcolm Turnbull. (Full disclosure obliges me to say that Turnbull is married to my niece Lucy, herself the deputy lord mayor...
When German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Nicolas Sarkozy met in Berlin on Monday, a major issue on their agenda was European immigration. While Sarkozy and Merkel were facing some critical questions from students of a local high school - one 18-year old girl, for instance, questioned the German Chancellor about the absence of immigrants in her cabinet - German foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Bernhard Kouchner turned the official occasion into a multicultural house party...
...There weren't too many notes for Steinmeier to miss, however. Supported by Muhabbet and seven background singers, Steinmeier and Kouchner merely had to repeat the word Deutschland (Germany) over and over again, with a slight variation at the end where the word for Kouchner's sake - whose French accent added some extra exotic charm to the song - was substituted with Frankreich (France...