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...Seattle, where population growth is projected to push up regional greenhouse gases by 38% in the next 15 years, ratcheting down to 1990 levels would require slashing emissions by 683,000 tons--the equivalent of taking some 148,000 cars off the road. To do that may require such unpopular measures as highway tolls and increased parking taxes. But in the absence of federal controls, Nickels says, he's ready and willing: "If it's not going to happen from the top down, let's make it happen from the bottom up." --By Margot Roosevelt...
...want to be to the White House. Voters have plenty to take out on Republican candidates this year--ethics scandals, the G.O.P.'S failure to curb spending, the government's inept response to Hurricane Katrina, a confusing new prescription-drug program for seniors and, more than anything else, an unpopular President who is fighting an unpopular war. Iraq could make a vulnerability of the Republicans' greatest asset, the security issue...
...police. Would this show of force bring a government that seems ever more out of touch to its knees? As street sweepers cleaned up after Saturday's throngs, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was already deep in discussion about how to calibrate a response between outright retreat from an unpopular step toward greater labor flexibility and holding a tough line. "The government is ready for dialogue," President Jacques Chirac said on Friday, "and I hope this will start as quickly as possible." And not a moment too soon. France is in another bout of revolt against its government, conducted with...
...sense in Paris that, this time, the Prime Minister must stand up to the student protesters to show a certain toughness, before facing a possible showdown with his right-wing rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, in next year's presidential election. But clinging resolutely to a deeply unpopular policy seems unlikely to help Villepin - whose personal approval rating has sunk to the mid-30s - with the voters. He may be looking for some room to maneuver. On Friday night, the Prime Minister met with university rectors, many of whom have urged him to retract the law. Villepin signaled little willingness...
...bosses in Washington for the enthusiasm and savvy he brings to the world's toughest job. "Right place, right guy, at the right time," says a U.S. official involved in Iraq policy. And yet the burden of trying to find a political solution to an increasingly brutal, costly and unpopular war is straining even Khalilzad's relentless optimism. He says he believes Iraq is "heading in the right direction," but those who know him say he is aware that he may be powerless to stop Iraq's unraveling. A recent visitor to Iraq who saw Khalilzad says he privately complained...