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...would be nice to have a woman President. I think half the Senate should be women, half of Parliament, half the ruling mullahs. But that will never happen, darling!' MERYL STREEP, Oscar-winning actress, on her views on government...
...they had drawn up detailed campaign plans and taken on extra staff to carry them out. Donors were tapped for additional funds. Constituents mulled their options. All that remained was for Brown to take the short drive from Downing Street to Buckingham Palace and ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament. He was expected to do so on Oct. 9 to set up an election...
...legislation. High Commissioner for Social Solidarity Martin Hirsch also decried an article in the law banning illegal aliens from emergency homeless shelters. In contrast to Amara's emotional denunciation of the law, Hirsch said he remained confident of convincing parliamentarians to amend the text during its final reading in parliament...
...loudest cracks yet to ring out from Sarkozy's bipartisan plank of "ouverture" came Tuesday morning, when Secretary of State for Urban Affairs Fadela Amara lashed out at controversial immigration legislation awaiting final passage in parliament. If everything goes exactly to schedule, the law is expected to be passed on October 23. Amara used the undiplomatic term "degueulasse" - combining elements of "sickening" and "disgusting" - to describe an article of the law introducing DNA testing of certain new foreign residents to France and the storage of that data. Amara similarly denounced the law for allowing race to be noted in census...
...voters on its real direction - or even coherency. Ironically, even many of those advocates of an exclusively conservative cabinet balked at approving the immigration law on principles of their own. Indeed, nearly two weeks before Amara opposed the legislation, the immigration bill nearly foundered before an upper house of parliament that felt elements of it might create a witch-hunt environment targeting legal and illegal immigrants alike. The legislation was finally passed after being considerably watered down, but it marked another significant case of the previously surging Sarkozy encountering resistance from within his own ranks and government...