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...Even at that time, however, French Jewish leaders denounced Sharon's comments as unfounded, deeming them a misguided swipe at the pro-Arab policies of France's then President Jacques Chirac. Current President Nicolas Sarkozy has made priorities of cultivating strong relations with Israel and fighting anti-Semitism at home - factors that have partially contributed to a slowing of French emigration to Israel. Last year, the number of French Jews moving to Israel was 1,562 - a 33% decline from the 2007 figure, which itself had been down from...
...Lario's latest public swipe took aim at her husband's plans to put politically inexperienced, easy-on-the-eyes young women on the ballot for the European Parliament elections in June. "Somebody has written that this is all for the entertainment of the emperor," she told the ANSA news service. "I agree. [It] is shameless trash, all in the name of power." Lario said that she and the three grown children she has with Berlusconi "are victims and not accomplices in this situation. We must bear it, and it causes us to suffer...
...hours of service a week, according to Rone, and is now closed on Fridays. The cutbacks have made Kirkland House Masters Tom and Verena Conley “angry,” Rone said. Quincy House has reduced the need for student library employees by instituting an electronic swipe access system. In the Mather House library, students are still hired based on merit rather than financial considerations, according to library tutor Joseph S. Ronayne ’92, but the number of salaried library personnel may be pared down in the future. College libraries outside the Houses have...
...take an ancient history seminar or Classics department course). Or, if you are planning to do a secondary field and a foreign-language citation and just don't have the room in your schedule, you can try to pretend to be a concentrator when asking the department administrator for swipe access...
...Likewise, many songs include hooks of catchy and simply crafted couplets with the explosive intensity of a jarring guitar to boot. But if White Lies aren’t more careful with their limited repertoire of lyrical influences, they’ll soon find themselves one swipe of the black eyeliner away from being hurtled into emo obscurity. But on “Fifty On Our Foreheads,” this tendency to wax melancholic is superseded by pulsing snare and bass, which transitions from an unassuming introduction to an uplifting finale. Opening with a soothing interplay between the swirling...