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...from the Foreign Ministry to the Elys?e, Sarkozy seems intent on completing that process. Sarkozy advisors say that will involve the creation of a National Security Council similar to the one used by U.S. Presidents to provide him advice and analysis on international and diplomatic issues. The unit will import around 30 foreign policy strategists from the Foreign Ministry, and it will be directed by Jean-David Levitte - a former Chirac advisor, United Nations ambassador and, since 2002, a well-respected ambassador...
...should be added to all committees that affect the student experience so that at the very least their perspective will be aired. Such a system has already been successful where it has been tried. In the academic realm, student representation on the Task Force on General Education added an important, if not crucial perspective on pedagogy. By all accounts student representation on bodies like the Educational Policy Committee, the Committee on Undergraduate Education, and the Committee on the Core Curriculum have led to similar results. And yet students are continually shut out of important decisions. For example, in decisions concerning...
...Americans tech support from India, Chinese-made Christmas lights, T-shirts from Bangladesh and those inexpensive Aussie wines, but U.S. conservationists are sounding the alarm that global trade is a two-way street that threatens American wildlife - thanks to rising economic tides in Asia and the fast and easy import-export routes between China...
...Sarkozy's global warming plans could eventually lead to conflict with Washington, because the President-elect plans to get his European Union partners to impose import taxes on all polluting goods produced in countries that declined to embrace the Kyoto accords. Meanwhile, Sarkozy's strong opposition to Turkey's admission to the EU also runs counter to long-running American lobbying on behalf of Ankara. Though less pedantic in his declarations on the matter, Sarkozy shares Chirac's view that international issues must be addressed multilaterally among equal partners. Washington can also expect no aid on an Iraq war that...
...says his journey was easy. First, he took an economy-class flight to Prague - Big Lin's sister already lived in the Czech Republic, where she ran an import-export clothing company. She pulled the right strings and procured him a business visa. Then, all Big Lin had to do was invest $10,000 in a Prague business venture. It's not clear who pocketed that money, but less than six months later, Big Lin says he received a Czech residence permit. The Czech document enabled him to get a tourist visa to England, which he overstayed. Six years...