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Well, no. But less than a year before, Sarkozy had come to power arguing that principles matter. The irrepressible "hyper-President" has also long said he judges people (and expects to be judged) exclusively on merit and results. But in October he supported his inexperienced 23-year-old son Jean's bid to take over the public body responsible for managing Paris's multibillion dollar La Défense finance district. To make matters worse, even as the accusations of nepotism grew louder, Sarkozy père described his reforms of France's high school system as guaranteeing that "henceforth...
...France - in ridiculing the idea of eliminating one of the main sources of income for regional and local governments before a more general reform of those bodies. Sarkozy risks a similar insurgency over a justice-reform bill which will eliminate the position of independent investigating magistrate and place power in the hands of politically appointed state prosecutors. Read: "Reburying Albert Camus: A Political Ploy by Sarkozy...
...Cameron, the specificity of unobtainium is not important, and despite Fox's objections, he never explains in the movie what makes unobtainium worth the trouble of interstellar travel. But the answer to that mystery is that the substance's room-temperature superconducting properties make it the key to cheap power generation back on Earth, where all the oil has run out. Unobtainium is crucial to running ships like the ISV Venture Star, which delivers humans to Pandora. The irony is that the more unobtainium humans mine on Pandora, the more they will be able to travel there...
...suspicion of state power can trump disillusionment with free markets ... The more that Democrats flail in the present, the more likely it becomes that the Great Recession will be remembered as the time when liberalism let the future slip away." --11/29/09...
Karr is the last person who would call her story inspirational--you can almost hear her dry snort at the word--but ultimately, she can't deny it. Lit chronicles her finding first her higher power, then cautiously calling that God and finally embracing Catholicism. She adopts prayer grudgingly and often hilariously ("I'll keep at this perfunctory gratitude the way a stout girl drinks diet sodas while stuffing her face with cheese fries") but is so convincing of her need for it that even an atheist would have trouble arguing her out of her Sunday pilgrimages...