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...just five days after giving birth. Hours after Dati left the hospital with newborn Zohra on Jan. 7, she bounded into the Elyseé Palace - sans bébé - for the first cabinet meeting of 2009. She was at that moment not a new mother but an embattled politician, fighting for her job as rumors persisted that President Nicolas Sarkozy might move her out because of her regular clashes with judges and magistrates. Surely fatigued, Dati, 43, nonetheless shot the photographers a breezy grin, as if to say: "I'm back...
...because they feel they have to, and it's true that laws designed to protect women have failed to end certain problems. Women's status is eroded by long absences from work, for instance; women still earn less than men - about 20% in Germany, Britain and the U.S. Socialist politician Ségolène Royal, mother of four, told the Journal du Dimanche that she took only two weeks' maternity leave while she was Minister of the Environment in 1992, because she "feared being sidelined...
...President-elect, however, can be a very persuasive politician, and McCaskill emerged from the luncheon singing a different tune. "He made a pretty compelling case," she said. McCaskill still wasn't quite ready to promise her vote, but others apparently were. Enough Democrats left Tuesday's meeting ready to support Obama that Senate majority leader Harry Reid afterward told reporters, "I think we will get the necessary votes" to block the resolution in a vote expected on Thursday. It was a sharp change from earlier in the morning, when his office had expressed doubts that they had the votes, even...
...promised or something was expected. The courts realize there is a right to give, a constitutional right to support your candidate with money. But now we're into the gray area. When is there an expectation of a reward [for having provided that monetary support]? When does the politician or the donor cross the line? It's not clearly spelled...
...health care if they convincingly help save even more in private outlays on health insurance. A well-managed system of public financing of health care can do that and allow us to cut the horrendous sums paid to health-insurance companies. And in the end, though almost no U.S. politician will say it now, the U.S. will probably have to follow Europe down the path of the value-added tax - a kind of national sales...