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Reaction to French President Nicolas Sarkozy's attempt to honor the memory of an executed Resistance fighter speaks volumes about his relationship with French society: half the country applauded the move whereas the other half denounced it as a cynical attempt to advance his own ideological agenda. At issue is Sarkozy's decision to have every school in France stage annual Oct. 22 readings of the letter written by 17-year-old Resistance member Guy Môquet penned to his family shortly before his Nazi captors executed him in 1941. The letter begins with a tender call...
...That's déjà vu, but with a difference. Three years ago a similar all-night E.U. marathon session ended in a celebration of the vaunted E.U. constitution. Then French President Jacques Chirac made the controversial decision to put the constitution to a referendum - which he lost on May 29, 2005, setting the stage for the Dutch rejection several days later...
...Gros, the director of the Center for European Policy Studies. That's why British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insists that the treaty be ratified by the British Parliament, not a popular referendum. Opinion polls show that E.U.'s most euro-sceptic nation would reject the treaty as convincingly as French and Dutch voters...
...That growing interest, and the skyrocketing revenues it generates, is rapidly making Planet Rugby a smaller place, as players are lured across borders and oceans to internationalize the sport as never before. As with soccer, England remains the prime destination of globe-trotting stars: The French team beaten by England in the semifinal included the mainstay of London pro club Wasps, Raphael Ibanez, as well as hirsute lock-forward Sébastien Chabal of Sale. And scores of players from Britain and Ireland play in the French league, where they'll soon welcome among them South African full-back Percy...
...growing World Cup audience the only indicator of rugby's spread: The big, TV-generated resources flowing into pro leagues and the regional international competitions continues fueling interest and participation as never before. In France, there has been an upsurge in youth and amateur squads way beyond French rugby's native, largely rural stronghold in the southwest, where its presence had long been a sign of English influence - France's new generation of top-level players is being drawn from youth squads in cities farther north. And, although less has been made of it than during France's victorious...