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When you're a hard-liner on crime, but crime goes up, what do you do? If you're French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, you blame the judges. Last week, Le Monde published a letter from the head of Seine-St.-Denis - ground zero of last year's riots and one of the country's most crime-ridden districts - expressing anguish over an "upsurge of crime." This was bad timing given Sarkozy's ambitions to run for President next May. The Minister could hardly blame the police, especially after two officers in a neighboring department were severely beaten...
...oppose the wanton exploitation of natural resources, including strip mining and clear-cutting of forests. Though Pinchot and his supporters won the debate and left an imprint on American environmental policy that has lasted decades, the pendulum has lately swung too far—under President Bush, the Interior Department, which controls a full fifth of the nation’s land, has allowed unjustifiable exploitation of the territory in its trust. Instead of balancing the needs of the economy and businesses against the imperative to preserve America’s wilderness for future generations, the Bush administration has given...
Macdonald added that the interior of his store was in good condition and did not warrant renovations...
...applaud, but the French attachment to the nation's patrimoine has sparked "a deeper, wider wave of opposition to this than to any of our other reforms." Is the resistance just misguided nostalgia? Properties the size of the Hôtel Kinsky in central Paris are rare, "but its interior is neither historic nor stately," sniffs Thierry Cardot, whose Luxury Observatory researches upmarket markets. He reckons the shack may go for under half its valuation of €57 million, but notes "better opportunities will come as these sales progress." Apartment hunters, take note...
...Congress, however, wants to see more than employee pep talks. "The Interior Department breached its fiduciary duty to the American people," says Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, who chairs the government reform panel's Energy and Resources Subcommittee. "It is charged with holding our natural resources in trust." Instead, he complains, the department "squandered billions...