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...have falling to 37% from 67% just 8 months ago. Yet there are also renewed signs that anger was sparked more by Sarkozy's flashy, arrogant style, and not with the policies he and his government have applied. Indeed, new polls show 58% wanting Sarkozy to adopt the more sober, distant profile traditional of French Presidents. At the same time, however, 67% said they want him to continue applying the reform platform he was elected on prompting the right-wing daily Le Figaro to headline its Monday editorial "The Reforms, Faster and Stronger...
...Robinson, an American and a "plastic patty" - the bearer of an Irish passport thanks to an Irish grandfather - wore a cocked neon-green velvet top hat to complete his leprechaun outfit. Surveying the scene, he said, "This is the same as a parade anywhere else. Except it's more sober. And it's in China." David Sheridan, who had flown in along with his band, the Geantra? Players for which he plays the fiddle, thought the event showed a needed "bit of looseness in China." He liked something about the look of it. "There's great color here," he said...
...lucrative jobs awaiting them on Wall Street and set off to change the world. When U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall announced his eponymous plan for rebuilding Europe after the Second World War in his 1947 commencement address, there were almost certainly dozens of graduates still awake and sober enough to know what he was talking about...
...organizations, most Princeton upperclassmen belong to one—setting them apart from Harvard’s exclusive final clubs. In return for this degree of consent from the administration, Oseroff said, “the eating clubs’ officers underwent CPR training, organized patrols of parties by sober members, and hired outside security services.” Jessica Baylan, a Princeton senior, said that many students feel that the administration’s new policies are a result of the March 2007 death of Gary DeVercelly, a student at Rider University, which is located five miles from Princeton...
...Kiefer Sutherland: Give up the booze—word is you’ve already been sober for 24 hours post slammer...nice...