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...look seriously at what all his activity has produced. Those who do see tax reform that will cost France $20 billion annually as of 2008, but will do nothing to stimulate stalled economic growth. For all his kinetics, Sarkozy has done nothing to reverse France's trade deficit or halt its growing debt; the small dip in the unemployment rate in recent months has masked the shrinking number of new jobs companies created. Sarkozy sends a terrible message to our European partners by refusing to undertake economic reform at home or to abide by the rules we expect all other...
...best thing for Romney and Giuliani would be for the White House and Congress to halt the surge and agree on a phased withdrawal. Then they could go back to talking about 9/11 while Iraq recedes as a partisan issue. But that's not likely to happen, because when it comes to Iraq, Bush is ignoring the polls. Romney and Giuliani should try it sometime...
...Letters to the London Times, sit-ins and the pleas of Betjeman eventually persuaded the bureaucrats to stop the bulldozers a mere 10 days before demolition day, but that didn't halt the area's decline. For the last three decades, the area surrounding St. Pancras has become infamous as a haven for the homeless, prostitutes and drug dealers. Anyone unfortunate enough to have to walk through its streets tended to quicken their step. The inspiration for its redemption came from the across the Atlantic...
...their pro-American, anti-communist stance during the war, many Hmong retreated to remote mountain jungles to avoid further government reprisals. Clashes between government troops and ragtag Hmong forces continue to this day, and refugees have poured into neighboring Thailand. This month, U.S. lawmakers petitioned the Thai King to halt the deportations of 8,000 Hmong living in makeshift settlements along the Thai-Laos border. Many of the refugees claim they are descendants of soldiers who fought for Vang Pao's CIA-funded army, and say they will be forced into labor camps or imprisoned if sent back home...
Much of what Ben Bernanke spends his days doing oscillates between the incomprehensibly arcane and the unspeakably dull. Lately, though, the Federal Reserve chairman has a stark, even exciting task at hand. He's been imitating Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life and trying to halt a bank...