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...solidarity in negative action." That doesn't make last week's outpouring of opposition any less a problem for Villepin, whose government was badly damaged by the rioting in the dense minority neighborhoods last fall. There's a sense in Paris that, this time, the Prime Minister must stand up to the student protesters to show a certain toughness, before facing a possible showdown with his right-wing rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, in next year's presidential election. But clinging resolutely to a deeply unpopular policy seems unlikely to help Villepin - whose personal approval rating has sunk...
...says, "or they are incompetent." Still, Serbia's efforts to shake off its past, however halting they may be, offer some hope. One day Mladic and Karadzic will likely be caught. One day, Serbia's ambitions to join the E.U. will be met. But you did not have to stand last Saturday in a light rain, under a steel-gray sky, and watch a man who had brought so much misery to so many laid to rest while a reverent crowd mourned his passing, to know that in the Balkans, that will take time...
Mehdi Savalli eschews the rituals that bullfighters typically use to ward off gorings and other misfortunes. He doesn't pray to the Virgen de la Estrella; he doesn't stand in front of a homemade shrine of religious prints when he slips on his traje de luces, the ornate, sequined costume worn by matadors; he doesn't cross himself before he steps into the ring. But these breaches of bullfighting tradition have not kept him from becoming one of Spain's most promising young toreros. Two Sundays ago, he was again demonstrating the skills that have earned the 20-year...
...relax and reflect. Roberts notes Stanford students "can't go the few minutes between their 10 o'clock and 11 o'clock classes without talking on their cell phones. It seems to me that there's almost a discomfort with not being stimulated--a kind of 'I can't stand the silence...
...Kicking off his cross-examination, Lay's lawyer, Chip Lewis, tossed a copy of Watkins book, Power Failure, onto the witness stand. "A housewarming gift," he said. She told him she already had a copy...