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...Though recent French governments have a tradition of yielding before student protests, Villepin vows to remain firm. Some within his ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party - particularly those close to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, a likely rival in next year?s presidential elections - have called for dialogue or even a suspension of the measure. But backing off would put Villepin, whose poll numbers have dipped steeply in the last month, on the defensive for the rest of his term. Whether he has to sweeten the deal somehow will become clear over the next few days: even high school...
...calls for the deal to be blocked, some acknowledged that the tide of history is turning against the old habit of looking at business in purely national or European terms. "I understand the astonishment and emotion" the bid caused, said Luc Chatel, a lawmaker from President Jacques Chirac's ump party. But he pointed out that the French find it natural for automaker Renault to buy a controlling stake in its Japanese rival Nissan, and added: "What do you prefer? To see European industries shift production to India, or to see Indians investing in Europe...
...that's a depressing prospect for the main parties of both the left and the right. The French conversation casts CDU leader Angela Merkel as a Teutonic stand-in for Nicolas Sarkozy, France's super-ambitious interior minister who heads the ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), yet regularly issues pithy calls for a total "rupture" of the status quo politics of President Jacques Chirac and his current prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and a more radical free-market agenda. Merkel's slow descent into parity with the Social Democrats, says political scientist Dominique ReynieŽ, is "bad news...
...Fans went wild two years in a row when the Kansas City Royals played the White Sox in Chicago. A father and son beat up a coach in 2002, and an umpire was attacked the next spring. How did the ump explain the bad karma...
...implicated in the June murder of a 37-year-old jogger. "The judge must pay for his mistake," Sarkozy fumed before an assembly of gendarmes at the Interior Ministry. The combative tone suggested to many that Sarkozy, who as head of the governing Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is already eyeing the 2007 presidential elections, is gunning for the hard-right voters of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. If so, he'll have to contend with his own government first. Justice Minister Pascal Clément noted that "the law, all of the law, was respected...