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...euros, and insists she will leave the controversial 35-hour week untouched. These proposals are fiscally irresponsible and are not calculated to increase private employment or the integration of minorities into the workforce. Royal is much more popular in the banlieues than the law-and-order immigration skeptic, Sarkozy, who has an unfortunate—and perhaps calculated—weakness for rhetoric with a racist edge. But Royal seems stuck in an antiquated and romantic socialism that offers minorities politically correct rhetoric in lieu of the prospect of genuine opportunity...
...purview as vice president to get together and work with student groups to do things that could be perceived as maneuvering to be UC president. And I’m not going to change who I am or what I should do as vice president just because people are skeptical of that.”“He doesn’t like people to assume that he’s going to be running [for UC president],” Murrell says. “He spends so much time working on what’s going...
...back to Rudd's maiden speech. It's the education revolution, comrade. The other great wave of sentiment that Labor is riding is shaped more by fear than hope. For Ruddites, it's climate change time. Rudd's approach on global warming is to flay Howard for being a skeptic; any government action taken, Labor claims, is insincere, inadequate or too late. Rudd is on a climate-change crusade. It's the area where he is moving out of the centrist comfort zone with risky populism. If elected, Rudd is proposing to achieve a 60% cut in greenhouse gas emissions...
...contribute to the Review, is interested in studies that have shown people who were trained to play video games develop a greater ability to ignore visual distractions.This poses the possibility of video games as tools of cognitive training.“Research has partly convinced me, a natural skeptic of this kind of research, that action video game playing can improve performance on some cognitive tasks,” she writes, though she has not been able to duplicate the results in her laboratory.“Why such improvement is seen, for how long it lasts, and how generalizable...
...Hillary Clinton for the nomination. It would be the victory Bobby Kennedy was denied by an assassin's bullet. Obama is, like Kennedy, a charismatic freshman Senator, running before his time but - supporters think - uniquely suited to the time. Obama follows Kennedy in being a bold liberal and a skeptic of simple ideological stances, a gifted politician and an antipolitician, a man familiar with the halls of power yet a charismatic critic of them...