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...farm implements and speeding up irrigation investments. The program convinced Ngor Sarr, a subsistence farmer in the region of Fatick in western Senegal, and the other members of his agricultural cooperative to expand their paddy fields last year. Though the seeds he received through GOANA weren't of top quality, leading to mediocre yields - a common problem with the program, critics contend - Sarr's rice output increased enough to encourage him to join GOANA again this planting season. The new government scheme "gives us the chance to do something extra, to try and expand our fields, and that's very...
...Luxembourg financial clearinghouse where 89 French politicians, businesspeople and public figures purportedly held accounts containing illegal kickback money from arms sales. A list of those names - including Sarkozy's - was brought to Villepin's attention in 2004, but was later deemed to be a fraud by a top French spy called in to vet it. A Villepin intimate has testified he sent the list to a justice official convinced it was authentic, and that it wasn't until later that he learned the list was definitely a fake. What the judge overseeing the trial must now determine is whether Villepin...
...against a younger, feistier generation more driven by election victories and policy results than diplomas and refinement. The split is perfectly personified in Sarkozy and Villepin. Born and raised abroad to a diplomat father and a judicial official mother, Villepin attended the élite schools that produce France's top civil servants. True to his family's aristocratic roots, the suave, permatanned Villepin is famous for writing poetry and studies of Napoleon. Despite winning praise as Foreign Affairs and then Interior Minister, when he was Prime Minister Villepin's arrogance turned off both politicians and the public. (Read...
...have modernized their own lives - are a large part of his appeal. Time-honored formalities, and the type of scheming in smoke-filled back rooms that the Clearstream scandal conjures up, are increasingly irrelevant in a country that now embraces everything from McDonald's to reality TV. (See the top 10 political sex scandals...
...culture parody, a celebrity spoof, a Star Wars reference). The Simpsons is a satire, but it's rooted in its family. Family Guy is less a half-hour narrative about characters than a delivery system for unconnected jokes the writers can't bear to part with. (See the top 10 TV dads...