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...there's another reason why support for the FN has fallen. President Nicolas Sarkozy has cut the ground from underneath the far right by taking a tough stance on issues such as integration and immigration, while presiding over the most ethnically diverse Cabinet that France has ever seen. Sarkozy set an annual target for deportations of illegal immigrants; last month he criticized the burqa as "a sign of subservience" that he said is not welcome in France. That has helped him reclaim turf that the FN has long monopolized. "He speaks unapologetically of battling illegal immigration ... He talks about national...
...last winter, the game had changed. When the couple started looking at houses again, they found plenty in their price range. The western suburbs of Boise, Idaho - four- and five-year-old neighborhoods scattered among hay farms and potato fields - are no longer a favorite stomping ground of out-of-state speculators, no longer a surefire way to get rich in real estate. (See pictures of Boise's struggling housing market...
...last year but only by finding a renter to live in their Las Vegas home. Now they live in the suburb of Eagle. The neighborhood, with 11 decorated model homes and four sold houses, sits like a ghost town; both the building and the selling have ground to a halt. "We were supposed to have another neighbor, but his financing didn't come through," says Vinny. It's not the neighborhood full of life he had imagined his children growing up in. "Everybody just pushed the pause button," says Russell Dane, president of the Ada County Association of Realtors...
...Inside, an a cappella version of "God Bless America" echoes over an empty concrete parade ground from a PA system. Long rows of mint green barracks recede down spotless, freshly laid concrete streets. A gigantic garage housing dozens of battle tanks, howitzers, armored personnel carriers and troop trucks has been constructed. Around the base, soldiers bearing tattoos sit or stand in long lines, breaking down and cleaning rifles and machine guns. "We are ready every day to fight if we have to. That's why we are here," says 20-year-old Corporal Sergey Ifankin, a member of the artillery...
...position remains unchanged," says Farideh Farhi, an Iran expert at the University of Hawaii, "Iran may well come to the table, but only in order to demonstrate to its own people that its regime has been recognized, not to seriously engage with U.S. proposals or give ground." (See TIME's photos: "The Long Shadow of Ayatullah Khomeini...