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...branch reform Sarkozy was elected to enact. Candidate Sarkozy promised harder work, more pay, fewer civil servants and a pared-down welfare state. He said he'd help small businesses get out from under high taxes and stifling regulation. "I expect a lot in terms of both the scope and results of reform, and I want him to continue pushing it ahead," says Eric Platel, a Paris-area IT consultant who voted for Sarkozy. With more than four years remaining in his five-year mandate, Sarkozy's best chance is to renew his reformist push, wait for its benefits...
...overexposure to images and the realistic attitude that came with it. Our more sophisticated view of international injustice leads many to throw up their hands who might otherwise have raised a banner or taken up a megaphone. There is almost too much information available: reminding us all of the scope of today’s problems and the looming barriers to our good intentions, curbing our ambitions to save the world. We’re daunted by the incapacity of activism to make positive, lasting change, and often opt instead to improve conditions in our own neighborhoods through community service...
...baseline budget. Bush has made a $70 billion supplemental request for his pet projects, bringing the total projected military budget for 2009 to a mind-numbing $585.4 billion (this excluding another $50.5 billion in appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security). Perhaps a comparison can draw into relief the scope of this budgetary immoderation: with these endless hikes America has earned the lamentable distinction of spending as much on war-making as the rest of the world combined. Indeed, if we disregard the 13 other highest spenders (for the most part American allies), Washington actually throws more than twice...
...Although this piece can only begin to address the broad legal scope of this issue, it deserves to be said that requiring absentee voters to pay postage on their ballots seems to violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the 24th Amendment. The amendment reads, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason...
...more of what we have become, particularly in the last few years, has involved working with health care delivery systems,” said Andrew A. Jeon, HMI’s acting president and chief executive officer, in an earlier interview. “That is certainly outside the scope of the University and Harvard Medical School. That drove the discussion.” Jeon and Vice Provost for International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez both said Wednesday that the University would honor all existing contracts involving HMI, including its agreement regarding the flagship Dubai Healthcare City, a major health-care...