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...more significant against Sarkozy's modest 43% approval rating, as well as polls indicating the public continues to frown on how he and his government have responded to the global financial crisis. Despite all that, ruling conservatives came within four points of Sarkozy's commanding 31.1% score during the first round of French presidential polling in 2007. "The penalty vote was penalized by French voters," quipped UMP secretary-general Xavier Bertrand...
...major exception to the rightwards shift was in Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing center-right CDU/CSU saw its vote fall by 7.1% to 37.8%. But it was mainly at the expense of the liberals, greens and former communists - at 20.8%, the Social Democratic Party actually recorded its lowest score since the end of World...
...Hollywood actor; most of the time he actually seems like a guy who somehow just wandered into the frame. But he's so confident that I think it actually put Will in this great position of being the straight man and setting Danny up. Will didn't have to score every time, and actually most of the times we had to stop a take, it was because Will was cracking up at what Danny was doing. (Read TIME's Q&A: Danny McBride...
...from February 2007 to May 2008. "But I don't know that I'd go so far as to do every single death," says Mansoor, who now teaches military history at Ohio State University. "Then you get into a situation where some people will start to tally up the score and say, 'Well, you've killed 2,000 people - why are you still losing?' " (See pictures of U.S. troops braving the Korengal valley...
...Robert Scales, a retired Army major general and military historian, says there may be a useful purpose served by reviving the corpse count. Unlike in Vietnam, where the tally was used to "keep score" among U.S. units and for Americans back home, Scales says the key audience for the Afghan tallies is the Afghan people themselves. For too long, he says, the U.S. has remained mute on its successes while the Taliban has shaped perceptions of how the war is going by exaggerating civilian deaths and posting videos of U.S. vehicles being blown up by roadside bombs...