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What's French for "be careful what you wish for?" Just ask the 19 million voters who flocked to the straight-talking, populist presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy last spring. Many of them apparently now find themselves mortified by their president's flashy private life and penchant for talking trash. Recent surveys show Sarkozy's approval rating falling to new lows of 38%, and pollsters are attributing the decline to voters' spying a vulgarity in their president incompatible with their standards for the office. Apparently, Sarkozy isn't getting the message. On the weekend jaws dropped anew as he publicly insulted...
...Another miss by Penn, Bernardini with the wayward jumper. The Quakers are cold from the floor right now, but still down by only five. The Crimson, setting up on offense, Lin inbounds to Housman, back to Lin, Lin gets rejected but Unger picks up the trash and calmly puts it in the net. Harvard 12, Penn...
...worsened the situation by increasing taxes. Everybody is struggling with meager salaries or pensions, while members of the ruling class enjoy enormous incomes and a lot of benefits. Everywhere one can feel the contempt that ordinary people nourish toward politicians in this mock democracy. The sight of the uncollected trash around Naples is a painful metaphor of the Italian mess. Alessandro Berrini, SAN DONATO MILANESE, ITALY...
...worsened the situation by increasing taxes. Everybody is struggling with meager salaries or pensions, while members of the ruling class enjoy enormous incomes and a lot of benefits. Everywhere one can feel the contempt that ordinary people nourish toward politicians in this mock democracy. The sight of the uncollected trash around Naples is a painful metaphor of the Italian mess. Alessandro Berrini San Donato Milanese, Italy...
Walking the paths of this slum north of Nairobi, John Kimani points to all the homes that now stand unoccupied, the trash on their floors and the doors swinging wide telling the tale of a hasty exit. Almost all the ethnic Luos in Witeithie have fled in the week since local Kikuyus warned them to leave by January 31. "Failure to do That will Suffer the Consequences," warned fliers scattered in front of Luo homes. Few waited around to learn what those consequences might...