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...Sarkozy's London bounce had given Elysée officials confidence the president could gradually resume his role as both the motor and icon of policy and governmental direction. But the tussles in the cabinet, along with France's lamentable economic situation, may leave Sarkozy no option but to return again to the front lines of government. His cost-cutting announcements this week involved just a few of the 166 programs he's targeted to claw back over $10 billion in annual spending, with the aim of balancing the French budget by 2012. That will provoke considerable pain and resistance...
Tony Lake can seem shy and self-effacing on the outside, but he is fiercely competitive. To get to his day job as a professor at Georgetown University, he rides on a 49.9cc Taiwanese motor scooter, wearing a gray suit, a tie, a black molded helmet and sunglasses. Pegged as an idealist, Lake has big strategies for counterterrorism and international development that have meshed naturally with Obama's belief that the Iraq invasion was an inadequate cold war--style response to 21st century problems like poverty, insecure borders and weapons proliferation. To get Obama ready for a presidential...
...Vietnamese prison to the steps of the White House. He was saved in captivity, he says, by his fellow soldiers, and their shared sense of common cause. "For me that cause has long been our country," he said in Meridian. To drive home the point, the sides of his motor coaches were laminated with the words, "Service to America...
...Though devotees crave great driving, everyone knows there's more to F1 than that. In fact, motor racing leaves many sports lovers cold because all they see is the cars, not a genuine human-to-human contest. Tiger Woods and Roger Federer wield state-of-the-art equipment that may be subtly different from what their opponents use, but it's not better (nor particularly high-priced). In F1, however, some cars are indisputably better than others. Recently, those superior cars have belonged to Ferrari and McLaren, and no matter how good a driver you may have been...
...current drivers are not, understandably, sounding quite so cavalier. The end of traction control should suit those with recent experience in other grades of motor racing where the device is banned, and those who are strong in the rain. The first impulse of Räikkönen's Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa, on the other hand, is to max out acceleration, regardless of the conditions, and few were surprised by the Brazilian's involvement in the first-lap mayhem in Melbourne, nor his spinout on lap 31 in Sepang, where he appeared to have second place...