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...professor at Paris' Sciences-Po. "Its goal is strictly political: defuse a month of crisis by letting everyone win a little, and no one lose." It didn't work. Those favoring reforms despaired of another retreat; unions and student groups promised more strikes and demonstrations, building on the momentum from last week when more than two million people took to the streets. Chirac's approval ratings dropped to 20% - a record low for recent French Presidents - while Villepin's slipped to 29%, just a year away from presidential elections. Ironically, the only short-term winner from the crisis appears...
...Monday night, Reiff and other business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced each other in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary committee voted 12-6 to send a bill sponsored by chairman Arlen Specter to the floor that swings the momentum back to their side. In a sharp rebuke to Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who had said he would introduce his own, tough counterpart to the House bill, Specter, three other Republicans and all the committee's Democrats united to force a pro-business, pro-immigrant bill through. Said a smiling Reiff minutes after the vote: "Specter...
...about taking credit. "We got him to introduce it," says Reiff, "because he's a Republican." When it came time for final passage, Specter literally produced gasps in the hearing room as he cast the final vote in favor of the bill himself, giving it extra momentum as it heads to the floor...
...India nuclear deal George Bush signed with much fanfare in New Delhi on March 2 may not be dead on arrival, but it has certainly landed with a thud on Capitol Hill. Even though it is too early to tell whether opponents will build enough momentum to block the landmark agreement, what's already striking is how silent-and unenthusiastic-Congress seems over an agreement the Bush Administration hails as critical for cementing a strategic alliance with the world's largest democracy...
...Lives are at stake, and so is the recovery of New Orleans. If crime soars, residents will not return. If they don't return, bringing money, momentum and stability with them, crime will continue to increase. "I think [the homicide rate] will become the major issue over the next few months," says Scharf. "I hope I'm wrong...