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When Americans want an iconic image of poverty, joblessness, alcoholism, and despair, they look to trailer parks. The rough French equivalent is the Nord Pas de Calais department, a swath of hardscrabble land that makes up about a third of France's northern border. While the neighboring Belgians remain the favorite butt of French jokes about simpletons, France has traditionally considered its indigenous northerners, known as Ch'ti, too miserable to even joke about. Instead, the Ch'ti were the folks filmmakers habitually went to for dismal, Zola-esque images of France's post-industrial decline and squalor. But that...
...makes all others from this century redundant. A description of how war corrupts and changes people, it springs from Costello’s own experiences but is universal in its impact. When he sings “I’ve sat alone on a mountaintop in a foreign land and wondered at how foolish humans are / Always at war,” one hopes that some future or current politician is paying attention...
...Georgia is serious - and the legislature's resolution allows the issue to be taken to the U.S. Supreme Court, which settles such disputes - Tennessee is very likely to demand payment for the land. The current value is more than $2 billion...
...Jerusalem, Friday was a day of martyrs. Thousands of Israelis gathered for the funeral ceremony at the Mercaz Harav seminary. The dead students were clean-cut, earnest boys who had believed in a religious expression of Zionism - that they had a right to the Biblical land of their forefathers - and were ardently prepared to defend their faith and land. Many seminarians are volunteers in Israel's combat regiments. In eulogies, they were hailed as "angels" and "the holiest of the holies...
...been a weakness in comparison to Obama's operation. If these factors once again add up to a big-state win, Clinton's team is sure to argue to the superdelegates that only she has the toughness necessary to survive the fall campaign and that Obama can't land the knockout punch. For a party still ruing the glass-jawed vulnerability of its 2004 nominee, John Kerry, this argument will likely pack some selling power...