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...formerly adoring French public is over came on Thursday - just five days after his Elysée wedding to former top model Carla Bruni. All three of the nation's newsweeklies hit kiosks with critical Sarkozy-focused cover stories. The cover line on L'Express is "The Disappointment"; Le Point details "What's Going Wrong" and the Nouvel Observateur calls him "The President Who Went Pffffftt." And that wasn't the only suggestion Sarko's presidency is deflating. New polls confirm the precipitous drop in Sarkozy's approval rating, from his near-record high of 65% in July...
...European Affairs, told reporters that the Elysée "shouldn't substitute itself for the government." The growing chorus of criticism reaching into his own government became too much for Sarkozy, who used Wednesday's weekly cabinet meeting to "Bang His Fist On the Table", as the daily Le Figaro headlined...
...listen, I read, I hear everything that's said. After the municipal elections I will take, with sang-froid, the necessary decisions," Le Figaro and other media reported Sarkozy warning government ministers. That was clearly Sarkozy's warning that all carping was to stop, widely interpreted as an implicit threat to ministers who'd already crossed the line that they'd be removed once the municipal elections are over...
...9/11, readers outside the Middle East are more interested than ever in understanding Arab societies, and many of them are becoming devotees of Al Aswany's writing. Last fall, a translation of Chicago became an immediate best seller in France, where Al Aswany was paid front-page homage by Le Monde. The English translation, published by the American University of Cairo Press, will hit international bookshelves this month, and editions in nine other languages are in the works...
...Critics, however, have been skeptical about the results. "The film has been made for audiences ranging from the Spanish coast to the Urals, passing through the Acropolis," wrote La Croix. "The result is a flat dialogue, jokes which are barely funny and a sluggish pace." Le Monde described it as a "vacuous gigantic stewpot," L'Express called it "French cinema's first bling-bling film," while Libération said it was a "tragic potion...