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...year-old son Jean's bid to take over the public body responsible for managing Paris's multibillion dollar La Défense finance district. To make matters worse, even as the accusations of nepotism grew louder, Sarkozy père described his reforms of France's high school system as guaranteeing that "henceforth, what's necessary to succeed in France isn't being born well, but to have worked hard and proven oneself through studies and accomplishment." "The scandal over Jean Sarkozy was a very personalized example of the way many of Sarkozy's actions are not only displeasing...
There are several clever mantras that Meg Whitman chants while she's campaigning to be the next governor of California: "Don't try to boil the ocean" (taking too broad of an agenda to Sacramento), "All roads lead to Florida" (a model of how to fix the education system), "I am not 'kumbaya' about this" (she understands the difficulty of being governor) and, finally, the kind of oversimplified sound bite that is especially maddening to her critics, "You've got to find 20% of the reforms that will get you 80% of the way home...
...speech in a San Diego hotel, Whitman ticks through her plans. "Let's try to get a few things done at 100%, as opposed to trying to solve every problem," she says. To that end, she proposes three ideas: creating jobs by slashing taxes and regulation; improving the education system by grading schools and launching more charter schools; and reducing government spending, primarily by firing thousands of state workers. (She won't say which ones.) And - surprise - she intends to reap big savings from the state budget by eliminating "waste, fraud and abuse" through the introduction of more technology...
...Army's corps of substance-abuse counselors is hundreds short of the number of trained personnel needed. "I have been pounding the system to say we have got to sit down and determine what we need after eight years of war," Chiarelli said. That shortage has made it tougher "to handle what I think is a higher rate of substance abuse today than eight years ago." Why is it higher? "I think it's only natural you're going to see that as soldiers come back [from war], you know, with the dwell time that they have [before returning...
...Khomeini fondly, and most of the youth barely remember him at all, the late Ayatullah seems to be inching closer to the center of the political crisis in Iran. This is likely because, as with most revolutionary leaders in history, what Khomeini symbolizes to the country and its political system has become more important than what he actually did. (See the top 10 news stories...