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...French conservatives responded with immediate outrage-just as Royal had intended. Indeed, given the unbridled fury that both of Sarkozy's public pronouncements produced, one might expect Royal's serial apologizing to have thrilled fellow Socialists. Think again. Though most leftists were pleased to see Sarkozy squirm during the international press storm his reported swipes at fellow leaders set off, few approved of Royal's apology on behalf of a nation that had said "no thanks" to her offer to lead it. (Read "Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy...
...years in Botswana. His fictional oeuvre includes “The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency” series, about the adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a female detective in Botswana, and the “Sunday Philosophy Club” series, featuring the philosopher Isabel Dalhousie, as well as serial fiction works. In his talk, “How to Do Things with People who Aren’t: The Moral Responsibility of the Author,” McCall-Smith used examples from his work and life to illustrate the thorny relationship between an author and his readers...
...that there will be job cuts,” said the individual, who asked that she not be named in order to protect her relationship with the University. “We’re not naive.” In February, HCL displaced 17 workers in the Widener serial services division to a Central Square facility currently occupied by HCL’s technical services unit as part of an effort to help reduce its budget for next year by $12 million. —Staff writer Esther I. Yi can be reached at estheryi@fas.harvard.edu...
Second: fight back on terrorism. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the biggest opposition party, has been relentlessly criticizing the Congress Party for being "soft on terror" - India has suffered through a dozen serial blasts over the past two years. The BJP stepped up its rhetoric after the three-day terrorism attacks in Mumbai, but in this speech Gandhi struck back sharply. He reminded the crowd that it was a BJP government that negotiated the handover of three Muslim extremists to end the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan, a decision that proved disastrous...
...Executing this seemingly simple agenda is more complicated than it appears. Obama, as Bosworth intimated, has to let a decent interval pass after the U.N. reprimand lest he appear to be caving in to pressure from Pyongyang. He can't dawdle, though. North Korea continues to be a serial proliferator of missile and nuclear technology. More sanctions, the diplomatic crowd argues, aren't obtainable, as the recent U.N. exercise showed, and in any event they don't work against a regime that seems to enjoy pain. The only way to get a grip on the danger the North poses...