Word: interiorities
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...great autonomy in foreign and military affairs. But as he contemplates the final 17 months of his term, perhaps the most he can hope to accomplish is to get his Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, into position to succeed him as President. That would bar the door to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who was once close to Chirac but is now the most popular man of the right and the President's toughest antagonist. So Chirac's potential to be a nuisance remains imposing. But his political influence can now only be exercised to benefit or to harm others...
...public services and jobs is the only way for France to avert a repeat of the violence that wracked the suburbs over the past three weeks. "We need fluidity here," Borloo says. "More banlieues flowing into the towns, and more from the towns gushing out to the banlieues." Though Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin were the most visible politicians during the crisis, Borloo may be the only man with a real plan for fixing the banlieues. Last year, he launched a project - now budgeted at $35 billion over five years - to demolish and rebuild...
Solid point guard play would in turn ease the pressure on the team’s interior strength. Although the multiple double teams that opposing defenses are sure to throw at Stehle and Cusworth will lead to open looks for Goffredo, Beal, and senior guard Zach Martin, the sole job of the point men will be to feed the ball in to the post, the lifeblood of this year’s team...
...country where politicians generally prefer evasion to bluntness, Nicolas Sarkozy makes a point of being an anomaly. As mobs of disaffected youths rampaged through the streets across France again last week, the Interior Minister projected an air of tough-guy bravado, using ghetto epithets to condemn the rioters, daring them to take him on. When he appeared at a televised town-hall meeting, Sarkozy took umbrage at what he deemed the insolent tone of a teenager in a hooded sweatshirt and shaved head--"We are not in the street here," Sarkozy said--but refused to apologize...
...needed a snapshot of the balance of forces in this civilizational struggle taking place in France, consider only the incomprehension and inertness of the official French response. The President didn't say a word for 10 days. The state of emergency wasn't declared until Day 13. Meanwhile, the Interior Minister and Prime Minister offered dueling slogans and empty promises, with an eye more on their upcoming presidential contest than on the fire this time...