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...carried with them everything they owned with their children in tow: small animals, powdered milk and soap to sell at the market, brightly-colored plastic bags emblazoned with Disney characters, and even one kitchen sink...
...wasn't the first time police and media activities in France's troubled housing projects were apparently used for political communication. In the autumn of, 2006, for example, units of over 100 riot cops staged raids in two troubled suburbs west of Paris with scores of journalists in tow - in both cases making few arrests, with no charges ultimately filed. At the time, Sarkozy was busy building his presidential hopes on the tough, law-and-order reputation he was carving out as Interior Minister, especially in France's blighted, disorderly suburban projects...
...Wenming, who lives just behind us, drives to work every day and says he'll continue to do so. But Shanghai is already gridlocked and smoggy and getting worse by the day. That's part of the reason my wife and I, with a 3-year-old daughter in tow, moved here - our daughter had developed a persistent hacking cough that she couldn't seem to shake. By 2010, in and around Shanghai there will be some 2,600 miles (4,200 km) of new highways that didn't exist in 2000. And millions of new cars will be traversing...
...most critical to that effort was not among those sitting around the gleaming conference table. Instead, Libyan president Moammar Gaddafi was just across the Seine, touring the Louvre Museum with a coterie of female bodyguards in tow...
...Rudd is more of a multilateralist than Howard was, and will be "much more engaged with the U.N.," says William Tow, professor of international relations at the Australian National University. "He has a real commitment to Wilsonian principles. He will make values, as well as national interests, a matter of foreign policy. He'll emphasize dialogue and diplomacy...