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...ships are appalling, according to Dave Walsh, a Greenpeace web editor who is on the Esperanza. (For his thoughts go to oceans.greenpeace.org). Some boats have holes rusting through the hulls, engines that don't work and portholes that have no glass. Fish and other seafood are stored in scum-filled containers. While the crews on board these ships wait weeks to be re-supplied with fuel and food, they often go hungry and end up eating what they catch. The Greenpeace crew felt so sorry for some of the fishermen that they gave them bags of rice, flour, noodles, beans...
...imagine the U.S. Director of Homeland Security or any Canadian Cabinet minister going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did [Nov. 21]? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant for politeness, the French have no inhibitions about crudely stating their reaction to events, no matter how offensive their comments might be. Attitude is only...
...class. France, a nation that prides itself on its respect for human rights, should embrace the ideals of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and give up sermonizing. Didier Braun Antony, France Can you imagine any Canadian cabinet minister going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant...
...saying that at 5 p.m. on November 21, he contacted his immediate boss, the province's Communist Party Secretary, Song Fatang. From 11:30 p.m. to 2 a.m., both men again reported to the State Council in Beijing. They requested that an upstream reservoir be opened to dilute the scum floating down the river, asked that a group of water-safety experts be dispatched, and informed Beijing that they would turn off the water the next...
...class. France, a nation that prides itself on its respect for human rights, should embrace the ideals of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité and give up sermonizing. Didier Braun Antony, France Can you imagine any Canadian cabinet minister going to a riot-torn area and calling the residents "scum," as France's Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy did? That should be political suicide, but Sarkozy got away with it. As a French citizen of South Asian origin, I would say that callousness represents the state of affairs in mainstream French society. Unlike the Anglo-Saxons, who have a penchant...