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...vows, he'll tackle the vision thing with more gusto, focusing on completing his reforms of the pension and health-care systems and pushing power and money from Paris to the regions. To get there, Raffarin will have to confront ornery unions, suspicious voters and the Parisian élite who believe the Prime Minister is a symptom of French decline. "France is too hierarchical, too pyramidal," he says. All the decline-mongers are "like the cork in a champagne bottle judging the champagne. That cork has to pop so we can taste the champagne." There's still a long...
...doing things in areas like security, family policy, law and order, and giving France a strong role in the world. The big theme in the papers now is whether France is in decline. Is it? This is an old chestnut in the French press. We have an élite in France that comes from the same place. Nicolas Baverez [author of France Is Falling, the book that sparked the debate] and many others in that élite are enarques, [graduates of the prestigious Ecole Nationale D'Administration that traditionally supplies France's political leadership]. These are people trained...
...people hired had any authentic business experience, which is why they spent group money recklessly as though it was their own," says Hasnaoui, who turned down a job offer from a Khalifa Group company. "This company was a fantasy creation by and for an Algerian élite - an artifice certain to collapse." That fantasy apparently duped the vast number of Algerian account holders who parked their savings in Khalifa's now-ruined banks. The majority of accounts were opened by Algerian state administrations and public companies - taxpayer money that vanished in Khalifa's high-spending business expansion. The remainder...
...fully relaxes one's brain. But the real breakthrough happened in 1990, when Yeltsin was photographed on a tennis court in shorts. His immense popularity at the time helped bring tennis to the masses. "Several factors just fell into place," says Yevgeny Zuyenko, Izvestia's sports editor. The élite followed the leader. The poor saw the money that top players were making. And bureaucrats and businessmen found a way to make a killing. In 1992, after Tarpishchev, Yeltsin's coach and longtime confidant, founded the National Sports Foundation (nsf), Yeltsin gave it the right to import untaxed alcohol...
...knock out odious regimes, but stabilizing the countries they leave behind inevitably requires a lot more - a point some of the Iraq war's key architects, such as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, seemed conceptually unable to grasp before the war. But as the Economist tartly notes, war lite is all very well, empire lite could be a tragic mistake. Iraq - and Afghanistan - are only likely to be stabilized if the U.S. is willing to commit a lot more troops, or else persuade competent allies to do so. Presumably, also, the folks on Capitol Hill will have to be willing...