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...euro but no to the constitutional treaty on Europe; and the country's youth, who will live less well than their parents, or so 60% of French people believe. It's an explosive situation. In the best scenario, it will lead to a rupture of a bankrupt social model. At worst we'll end up with a lame "appeasement" like the one that led France to humiliating defeat in 1940. Failing to rein in public spending for fear of displeasing those who use and abuse it would amount to precisely that today. In Strange Defeat, a superb essay written...
...only one who feels that way. Nine other states, from New York to Oregon, have adopted Pavley's landmark legislation to curb their own emissions. The California law, which took effect in January, gives automakers until the 2009 model year to begin phasing in technology to cut greenhouse gases-CO2 and other tailpipe pollutants that have never before been regulated in the U.S. By 2016, cars and light trucks must reduce their emission of these gases by 30%. Officials from Germany to Japan have flocked to California to study the new rules...
...majority of seats go to incumbents; thus any change in the gender composition of elected officials will take decades,” wrote Iris Bohnet, KSG associate professor of public policy and WAPPP faculty chair, in an e-mail. The Oval Office program is expected to serve as a model for other universities, the program’s leaders said yesterday. “I know of no other political program in the United States that specifically focuses on the challenges and opportunities women face in the electoral process,” Budson said. Tanene Allison...
Podesta argued for a model that combined profitability with environmental responsibility, demonstrating the economic feasibility of various renewable energy schemes, especially biofuel initiatives. These programs provide cheaper fuel to consumers and stimulate the agricultural sector, he said...
...Sounds nice, but is it credible? Sarkozy has built his presidential profile on visions of sweeping economic and labor reform and urges "rupture" with France's social model in favor of the freer-market U.S. and U.K. versions. He's also been a tough law-and-order advocate, promising to "cleanse" the blighted French suburban projects of its young "thugs." "Sarkozy's entire political identity since he made the presidency his obvious objective has been based on tough law-and-order enforcement, and equally radical economic liberalism," says Dominique Reyni?, a political analyst at Sciences-Po in Paris, who says...