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...alternative sources of information. The last few years have seen the rise of free dailies, handed to commuters outside subway stops. With limited budgets that rule out big-name commentators, they've had to offer their readers something new: straight news. On a recent Thursday, when the front page of La Repubblica offered three articles on Berlusconi's admission that he was "not a saint," the free Metro carried a much more relevant headline: "H1N1: 15 Million Youth To Be Vaccinated." Online, Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned political blogger, has a large, vocal following. As does dagospia.com, Italy's left...
Next, I set up my account on a personal Voice Web page, where I linked my home, work and cell numbers to my new T-I-M-E number, causing all those phones to ring simultaneously when anyone calls. Now when my phones ring, I pick up whichever is most convenient. If need be, I can press * to make all my phones ring again and hand the call from my cell to my land line or vice versa...
...that reason, the Bongo succession was viewed as a test of the repeated promises French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made to turn the page on Françafrique by treating African partners as equals - and allowing their voters to decide their destinies for themselves. "If you choose democracy, liberty, justice and law, then France will be with you to construct them," Sarkozy told a crowd of university students in Dakar, Senegal, in July...
...four (or five) classes’ worth of impossible course work, most Harvardians realize that they won’t survive unless they ditch some of their texts. Very few students I’ve met in my two-plus years here actually absorb word-for-word every assigned page (and the rare ones who review all the material do so over reading period...
What should the President have done? Well, there's a path between the 1,300-page Clinton health-care plan and the 1,000-page Henry Waxman plan that will be voted on in the House. The President could have laid out a set of principles and said, "I will veto any bill that doesn't contain the following ..." (Indeed, he still could do so.) They should be clear, simple, popular and achievable. My list would include insurance reform, health-care exchanges, near universal coverage and tort reform. (Obama's position on tort reform is another abdication of responsibility...