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...There is totally going to be old Cuban music blasted outside the Science Center,” said the presidential candidate, a Cuban American from Union City, N.J. “It’s going to be a giant party...
...previous month. It also constituted a drop of 16 points from his presidential high of 65% in July. Then, Sarkozy's actions impressed pundits and the public alike by pushing through a flurry of reforms into law - and staging diplomatic coups by brokering agreement on the simplified European Union treaty; freeing Bulgarian medics held by Libya; and laying the way for restored relations with the U.S. with his vacation chow-down with George W. Bush. But that razzle-dazzle has failed to achieve what French consumers are waiting for most: economic growth capable of cutting joblessness, and putting more disposable...
...neither new, nor attaining results. Laws permitting employees to work more than 35 hours (and exonerating companies from salary-linked social charges for extra-time pay) came into effect in October, but are so complex that few businesses have bothered using them. That's why he's hoping union-employer accords on increasing work time and pay may render these complicated regulations obsolete. "These aren't matters Sarkozy can thrill away with dramatic gestures and rousing announcements," warns Reyni...
...European accents. So far this year, European bigwigs including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and London Mayor Ken Livingstone have come calling, while French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be chief guest at India's Republic Day celebrations next January. On Nov. 30, E.C. President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Union President and Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates will visit New Delhi for the annual E.U.-India summit, a bilateral confab to discuss investment, scientific cooperation and efforts to combat climate change. The participants are expected to announce a joint solar energy project and the formation of a European Business and Technology...
...lavish centralization of federal authority, as well as a betrayal of Chvez's Bolivarian Revolution (named for South America's 19th-century independence hero, Simon Bolivar). "This revolution was supposed to create more pluralism in Venezuela," says Martinez. "We don't want a megastate like the Soviet Union...