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...Study of French Political Life in Paris. "The second problem is, Ségolène Royal is a very determined and strong politician who believes she's the person to lead the PS back to national power. She won't simply fold up her plans and projects, sit down, and be quiet...
...interfaith relations. “Liberal academia hasn’t found ways of having intelligent religious conversations,” she said. But she added that events like last night’s Thanksgiving dinner are a good way to encourage interfaith relationships. “When you sit people down in a room and ask them to share their deepest thoughts about religion that’s asking for trouble,” said Boothe. Boothe, who attended a previous event devoted to interfaith relationships, said that a themed day on the topic should be extended...
...conservative." But one of Steele's more daunting mandates will to be to broaden the GOP's base of black voters. "I'll tell local chairmen, 'If you want to be chairman under my leadership, don't think this is a country-club atmosphere where we sit around drinking wine and eating cheese and talking amongst ourselves. If you don't want to drill down and build coalitions in minority communities, then you have to give that seat to someone who does...
...frustrated at myself just for the fact that I don't want anyone else to wait based on me. I travel all the time for competitions, I just came home for the first time in a year. So when I'm looking at flights, I don't wanna sit at the airport for an extra hour. I want to get in and check in and get on my plane. Once I had less than 20 minutes before an international flight took off, and they let me on the plane, probably because it was not an American airline. It was South...
...While Dongxiaokou's scrap yards have epitomized China's industrial boom over the past two decades, the global economic slowdown has left the scrappers struggling as prices for raw materials plummet. A group of men from Henan sit at a table playing a card game called "Fight the Landlord." They're the owners of a huge mound of plastic bottles they could process, but if they sold them now, they would lose money - scrap prices have fallen to levels not seen in years. "You want to know why our prices are dropping?" says Zhang Zhongming, 43, who moved...