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...keep it up? As summer ends, the fast-moving "Sarko Show" has begun drawing criticism. Opponents complain that Sarkozy's sunny-day successes don't all bear up under scrutiny: was the Libyan triumph linked to troubling nuclear and military contracts? Does Sarkozy's penchant for economic interventionism, visible in Sept. 3's megamerger between utility giants Gaz de France and Suez, mock his free-market rhetoric? Time asked a group of French and international experts to evaluate the spectacular start to the Sarkozy era and how - or whether - he can meet that promise in the months and years...
...European was Sarkozy being when he preempted years of effort by Brussels to secure the freedom of Bulgarian medics held by Libya in order to cut a deal of his own with Tripoli? Sarkozy did a marvelous job restoring relations between Paris and Washington, but were the military and nuclear deals France signed with Libya really in the best interests of the Atlantic alliance...
...says something about your trustworthiness when both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush choose you for a key post. As the longest-serving member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the group that regulates the nuclear industry, Edward McGaffigan earned a reputation as a scholarly analyst who could be blunt and acerbic with critics. Asked whether new plants should be required to withstand rogue-airplane attacks, the Democrat offered, "When they change the law to require absolute assurance of perfect protection, there won't be a lot of nuclear reactors in this country. Also, there...
Which is why no one is particularly surprised by the latest disagreement. On Sept. 2, the U.S. announced that a weekend of direct talks had resulted in the North's commitment to account for and disable all facets of its nuclear program by the end of the year--the first time, it stressed, that Pyongyang had agreed to a specific timetable on full denuclearization. The North Koreans in turn announced how happy they were that the U.S. had agreed to take Pyongyang off its list of state sponsors of terrorism, something Kim has long sought. The only problem is that...
...Senate has approved Bush's nominees for district-court judgeships at a clip that equals previous confirmation rates. Not so his nominees for the U.S. circuit court, only three of whom have been confirmed in 2007. In the spring, in an episode recalling the 2005 "nuclear option" showdown that required a brokered deal on judicial nominees, a tense fight broke out over Judge Leslie Southwick, Bush's pick for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Democrats finally agreed to vote on Southwick after Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened to bring the Senate to a standstill...