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During his first six months??in office, French President Nicolas Sarkozy thrilled audiences at home and abroad with his kinetic vision for France. He stared down railworker unions, brokered a huge trade deal with China and generally signaled that he could redefine his country through sheer willpower alone. But as riots that broke out Nov. 25 north of Paris reminded us, the Sarkozy show isn't playing well with a crucial audience: residents of the banlieues, or France's impoverished suburbs...
...answer to that essay test suggests a paradox that may play out on Capitol Hill as the Judiciary Committee opens hearings for a Supreme Court nominee for the second time in five months???after nearly a dozen years with none at all. Supporters and former clerks affectionately describe Alito as nerdy?more academic but also less polished than John Roberts, who addressed the committee without notes on his way to confirmation in September as Chief Justice. Yet Administration officials say they are certain that Alito will attract fewer votes?in the committee and later in the Senate?than did Roberts...
...backing within the collective leadership to assume a forceful, prominent role in foreign policy. In the European nuclear debate, Brezhnev attempted a number of personal, high-visibility ploys to head off NATO decisions, but none were as successful as the way Andropov has played his hand these past two months???first, with his televised speech in December, then with tantalizing but carefully hedged hints of additional concessions to visiting West German Opposition Leader Hans-Jochen Vogel earlier this month...
...emergency." Yes, he admits, there is a three-TV unit in his new apartment overlooking Central Park, but it has not even been hooked up yet. Really, he says, his family?Cathy, to whom he has been married for six years, and his children, Melissa, 5, and William, 8 months???are far more important to him than...
...With tacit U.S. approval, Saigon army officers stage coup against Diem and execute him. Junta headed by General Duong Van Minh takes over. As turmoil continues?13 governments in 19 months???Viet Cong rapidly gain strength in countryside...