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...young men. So he blamed the judiciary instead, noting a drop in sentencings of offenders. "Police can't get the result residents have a right to expect if afterward delinquents are set free again," he said. As a Minister's criticisms of a state institution, his comments drew a swift rebuke from many fronts, including President Jacques Chirac, who said lawmakers need to "respect judges' independence." But acting like a candidate already on the campaign trail, Sarkozy pre-empted such reprimands. "The French know I'm right," he said earlier, and "it's the judgment of the French people that...
...small ad campaign by an obscure organization called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smeared John Kerry's Vietnam War record and dealt his campaign a blow from which it never fully recovered. The episode demonstrated the new power of independent political organizations, known as 527s or 501(c)s for the sections of the tax code under which they operate. These groups function outside the campaign-finance laws. Among other things, most can collect unlimited contributions...
...high-pitched voice is soothing, his awkward hand gestures are graceful, and his long fingernails are quite useful as pointers. But in the interim, you may be a bit distracted and freaked out. Give Albright a chance, and you'll soon understand his dense but interesting lectures about Swift, Wordsworth, Keats, Woolf, and Beckett, among others. The course tries to cover a lot of ground; many students give up when assigned a 500-page George Eliot novel in one week. However, what you do choose to read, you'll enjoy...
...Drut, a former Olympic hurdler who had been convicted for taking a fictitious job in Mayor Chirac's municipal administration. But when the government then claimed that thus pardoned, Drut should be able to assume a spot on the ethics committee of the International Olympic Committee, public reaction was swift and severe, and the government backed...
...Gill faced a police force trained to deal with gunmen like Fabrikant and L?pine. Police Chief Yvan Delorme told reporters at a press conference last night that the 1989 massacre prompted a swift rewrite of police protocol for apprehending armed suspects...