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...chance to benefit from a global economy." Sarkozy comes from a French tradition that is far warier of the outside world and more inclined to state intervention. In his victory speech, he urged European leaders "not to remain deaf to the anger of the people who view the European Union not as a protection, but as the Trojan horse for all the threats that are contained in the transformations of the world...
Eschewing the fierce partisanship of his campaign, Sarkozy has said he will be President of all the French. That would require him at times to go against the will of his own party, the Union for a Popular Movement. It may be against his nature, but he has done it before. In 2003, as Interior Minister, he opposed many in his party by reversing a law that allowed foreign convicts to be deported once they'd served a jail sentence, which amounted to a form of double jeopardy. "If it wasn't for Sarkozy, it wouldn't have happened," says...
...course, Bill and Melinda Gates are not alone in contemporary transformative philanthropy. George Soros' support for brave truth tellers in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union helped catalyze the peaceful end of communism. The Google guys, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are out to prove how information technologies can bring about major change. They have recently posted satellite imagery of Darfur, Sudan, in order to raise awareness and technical support for solutions in that violence-ravaged region. The dynamism of social entrepreneurship makes a mockery, alas, of our political leadership. The Gateses, Buffett, Soros, Page and Brin have left...
...Centre for European Reform, a London-based think tank, says Sarkozy, Brown and German Chancellor Angela Merkel could create a dynamic team at Europe's core. All three, he says, "are Atlanticist, economically liberal--more or less--and take a pragmatic rather than ideological approach to the European Union and its institutions...
Three decades of sectarian conflict faded, at least temporarily, when Protestant Democratic Unionist Party head Ian Paisley, 81, became Northern Ireland's First Minister and Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness, 56, became Deputy First Minister. The historic union of Northern Ireland's major Protestant and Catholic parties prompted praise from Paisley for the "new beginning" and an optimistic declaration from Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams: "We are going to succeed...