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...Borloo calls his policy package a "Marshall Plan for the banlieues," and its scale and ambition almost justify the bombast. Since joining the government in 2002, his efforts have mobilized over €35 billion in funding to rebuild or renovate France's most troubled housing projects. In 2005 alone, ground was broken for construction of over 340,000 new and restored housing units. The Minister has also launched new employment-training and job-creation programs tailored to young people that aim to create at least 1.3 million jobs: unemployment among those 25 and under is a steep 23% nationwide...
...just how she was treated; it was that so little of what happened to her was unusual. Despite his best efforts, tests were repeated unnecessarily, data were misread, information was misplaced. Things weren't just slipping through the cracks: the cracks were so big, there was no solid ground...
...insular that it is hobbled by what he calls the "white-men-can't-jump syndrome"--the inability to soar. So now Bolten must prove to his many constituencies, internal and external, that although he's a veteran of the Bush team, he can still get it off the ground...
...course. A strong move to end the first 500 meters gave the Crimson the Navy bow ball and later an open-water lead at 750 meters down, an advantage Harvard would only increase as the three crews crossed the midway mark. Navy hung in second and Penn made up ground to make a push for second place. The Crimson, however, turned Saturday morning into a time trial against itself.“It’s obviously nice when you get up early on a crew, because you can focus on getting away from them and not getting frantic...
...fire in the middle of the road -just at the spot where a truck full of blue-uniformed Nepali police has driven up. Chaulagain uses a stick, and pushes one of the burning tires right up to where the cops are and lets it roll on to the ground. His friends cheer: so does the crowd behind them, which is at least a couple of thousand strong. "We've not been protesting for 17 days for a prime minister," Chaulagain says. "We've been protesting for democracy. Until we get democracy, we'll be out here." The police at first...