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...right, but between populist and reformist. What we need most of all is realism." Begg agrees and warns against the risk of pursuing bad policy for short-term electoral advantages. But, he adds, "the huge ideological disputes of the '70s and '80s are simply not on the agenda. Mitterand vs. Thatcher, talk of renationanlizing industry - that's gone. Instead, the debate will ultimately be around the details." Begg says how, and how fast, specific reforms should be enacted is ultimately what pols in the West are arguing over. The basic tenets of modern democratic capitalism, he concludes, are not really...
...That was the year he won the commission for the Institute of the Arab World in Paris, one of the Grand Projects decreed throughout the city by Francois Mitterand. Its most ingenious feature was a sunscreen created by thousands of steel-frame iris mechanisms. Arranged in Islamic tile patterns, they widen and contract in response to the sun. Architects talk sometimes about buildings having a skin. This one had pores. They didn't always operate, but they announced to the world an intricate mind...
...little more than a decade ago, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and French President François Mitterand officially opened a similar experiment: The Chunnel, the underwater tunnel to connect England and France. The conclusions, however, speak to the failure of the results to satisfy the hypotheses. Eurotunnel, the group which manages and operates the tunnel predicted high passenger and freight traffic. Instead, low volumes of both passenger and freight traffic is trapping the company in quicksand—which Spain and Morocco did not heed as a cautionary tale...
Over the past 26 years, France has been led by two presidents, François Mitterand and Jacques Chirac, who came from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum, but who shared an inability to address the profound identity crisis that France has been undergoing. By now, French voters seem to recognize that without a major course correction, the country has little to look forward to other than growing social unrest and long-term economic decline...
...weeks now, John Kerry?s heard critics tell him he needs to lay out his vision for the country before the flood of Bush-Cheney TV ads convince voters that the Senator?s real name is Francois Mitterand. Taking the advice, Kerry unveiled a plan Wednesday to cut the budget deficit by half in four years. No one noticed. With unrest in Iraq growing by the hour, reporters spent the day asking Kerry if the U.S. should ?take out? Shi?ite Ayatollah Moqtada al-Sadr or simply bring the troops home. They ignored Kerry?s repeated attempts to turn their...