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...Fran hits a bomb—it was unreal,” Black added. “She knew that that could have been her last at-bat, and she didn’t want it to be. She proved that...
...study at a university can do so for about $540 per year. The government subsidizes the remaining cost per student, which can be as high as $16,160 per year. An increase in the number of students can also mask the growing unemployment problem in France, according to François Ameli, a professor of international law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. "The philosophy of France [on higher education] is a mass sort of thing. We have over 2.2 million students, which is a lot for a country of 60 million," Ameli says. "Universities are also...
...resounding defeat. Some right-wing officials now insist it's time the President abandons his mix-and-match policy decisions and return to basics. "This is a real defeat for us, and it carries a message we have to retain: we must go back to the fundamentals," says Jean-François Copé, president of the UMP's parliamentary group. "Those are what got Nicolas Sarkozy elected in 2007." (Read "Nicolas Sarkozy: A Grand Entrance...
...Less than 24 hours after the disastrous regional results were announced, Sarkozy instructed Prime Minister François Fillon to cull the carbon tax rather than apply it as planned. The reason: the reform was one conservative voters and legislators alike have derided as leftist. At its heart was a $23 tax on each ton of carbon produced - mainly applied at the gas pump and via heating bills. (See TIME's coverage of the World Energy Technologies Summit...
...think the attitude of the American government on the refueling-aircraft issue is a grave infraction of the rules of fair competition between our economies," French Prime Minister François Fillon said Wednesday, March 10, during a visit to Berlin, where members of the German government echoed his belief that the Pentagon was going to award the contract to Boeing no matter which company had the better bid. "The American government, I'll say here and now, forced EADS to quit the competition." (See pictures of the aircraft NASA, Boeing and the U.S. Air Force are teaming...