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...Suspicions that some Sarkozy positions were manifesting split personalities increased on Thursday night, when the president reversed a spree of uncharacteristic - and highly controversial - praises of religion by declaring his devotion to the French state's tradition of secularity. During a recent trip to Saudi Arabia - a country whose official Wahhabism has been criticized from abroad as extreme and intolerant - Sarkozy claimed to know of no country whose "heritage, culture, and civilization wasn't rooted in religion". That followed his comments in the Vatican in late December, where the President praised faith and extolled "France's Christian roots". But given...
...carried out in any given year. California's death row houses more than 660 prisoners, but no one has been executed in the state in nearly two years. Pennsylvania, with 226 inmates on death row, hasn't carried out a sentence since the '90s. In Florida a spree killer named William Elledge, who confessed to his crimes and has openly discussed his guilt in interviews, will soon complete his 33rd year on death row with his appeals still unresolved. Thirty-three years! He's one of about 55 men in Florida alone with more than 25 years on death...
Indeed, Chavez's spending spree has given Brazil's long-dormant arms industry a bit of a political kick-start. Says Brazilian Senator Jose Sarney, a regular critic of Venezuela's president: "Hugo Chavez's armed forces have ordered 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 50 attack and transport helicopters, smart bombs, 24 Sukhoi Su-30 fighter planes. There is also talk of them buying nine submarines from Russia for $3 billion. It's very worrying. As Venezuela turns itself into a major military power, it obliges the other nations in South America to increase the power of their own forces...
...matter of time before this torrent of expletives, issuing from the mouths of female as much as male players, is directed towards me, I deem it judicious to make my exit; and leave well before the bar closes - at 8 a.m. on a Sunday. Another week, another murder spree, and then it's time to return to planning for making a killing at the office...
...doubled to more than 400, principal Pang Minsheng has witnessed an educational revolution. Many of the students' parents are now IT executives or research scientists, not menial laborers. "These people are the intelligentsia of China, who went to the best universities," says Pang, who has gone on a hiring spree in China to cater to the growing student population. "They want only the same for their children, and they feel confident about China's place in the world...