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...world leader, it must have set some sort of miserable record: in a poll in December, just 1% of French voters said they wanted President Jacques Chirac to stand for re-election in 2007. For Chirac, that capped a terrible year of economic torpor, electoral setback and, in November, a fiery eruption of social unrest in the suburbs of Paris and other major cities. Trying to restore his authority, the French President gave his customary televised New Year's address to the nation. "We must believe in France," he told his compatriots in a pathos-filled speech quickly lampooned...
...rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens' feet), jerk chicken and plenty of local beer and rum drinks. The musicians - who all play their instruments by ear - have eight minutes to impress the eight judges seated in the main Grand Stand. The "engine room," or rhythm section of each steel band, includes at least one conventional drum kit, tumba drums, maracas and "irons" - scrapped car-brake drums Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century...
...obvious adverse effects. Passing through the reading room near dawn is almost surreal. Slumped figures drool unattractively onto their course-packs, cursing their professors in slurred whispers. Having arrived optimistically the night before with a full head of steam, students find themselves trapped in a mist of boredom. They stand no chance in the stuffy atmosphere. Further soothed by a lullaby of turning pages and tapping keys, is it any wonder that Lamont’s midnight tenants yield to sleep? Could this, rather than Harvard’s natural exhibitionism, be the real reason behind Primal Scream? Come...
Klein's praise of the president "For standing with human-rights activists throughout the world" was off the mark. All Americans stand up for freedom, and most represent American values better than Bush does. His Administration propagates misinformation, circumvents the law and defends his actions-no matter how foolhardy-while attempting to squelch objective criticism...
...support for his position from members of the Corporation, the only body on campus with the power to fire the president. Communicating by telephone in the first several days of the controversy, James R. Houghton ’56, senior fellow of the Corporation, told Summers that he should stand up to his critics on the Faculty and refuse to apologize, according to the two sources familiar with the discussions in Mass. Hall...