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...sorest points is the air of privilege surrounding Duke's lacrosse team. Lacrosse, originated by Native Americans, is a rapidly growing sport in the U.S., but it has historically been a game of the privileged and protected, played at élite prep schools and colleges and at public schools located mostly in wealthy areas. A favorite slogan at Duke: "There's only one fraternity on campus--LAX [the nickname for lacrosse]." Fifteen members of the team have committed prior, mostly frat-jock infractions, ranging from public urination to noise violations...
...work inside a nuclear power plant. After we've reasserted control over the illegal population through enforcement, then we can have a debate about whether we legalize some of the people here or not. The public is already in favor of immigration enforcement. It's an élite commitment that's lacking. It's the business élite, Big Labor, Big Religion, Big Media, Big Academia, who are hostile to the very concept of immigration enforcement...
...philosophers who emerged in 1968, thinks that the great majority of French voters - the ones who didn't march last weekend - know that things have to change. "Every generation we have a war, a revolt or a revolution," he says. "That's how we recycle our élite." Rising to the top of preliminary polls for the presidency are politicians who propose new ways of doing business: Sarkozy, who talks of a "rupture from the policies of the last 30 years," and Socialist Ségolène Royal, who has scandalized her party leadership by praising Tony Blair...
Blunt talk like that is rare in corporate France, but Ghosn is used to breaking molds. Born in Brazil to Lebanese parents and raised in Beirut, he studied in Paris and graduated from the élite Ecole Polytechnique. In 1978 he went to work for tiremaker Michelin, eventually heading the group's South American operations, based in Brazil, before taking over the North American operations. Recruited to the money-losing Renault in 1996, Ghosn undertook a three-year cost-cutting campaign, ultimately saving the company more than $5.2 billion--and allowing it to take its controlling stake of Nissan...
...done it with much more panache. For example, “Cash Machine,” the album’s first song, sounds a bit like the Clash, albeit a Clash with way too much studio time and a narcoleptic Joe Strummer. The lyrics are Gang of Four-lite, providing a faint-hearted critique of capitalism that doesn’t extend far beyond a complaint that not having money sucks. Dance-rockers Radio 4 provide the basis for the second track, “Middle Eastern Holiday,” and the album continues in a similar vein...