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...Jean-Marc Lech, co-president of the Ipsos polling agency, calls it "a sentimental disappointment." The French, he says, feel "chagrin that promises made aren't being respected," and that has made Sarkozy fair game on all fronts. "If he'd boosted economic growth, increased purchasing power and decreased unemployment, as promised, he could do whatever he wanted in his private life with absolute impunity," says Lech. "The problem is he's not delivering on anything. Now people wonder if he really knows how to turn things around...
...where you are. But that's a mistake. There is genuine if sometimes subtle tension even in booming, middle-class China, and some of it is evident every time I go out for a bike ride, past the security guards at the entrance of Emerald Riverside. The developments here aren't exactly gated communities, but all of them are guarded, and for a legitimate reason: the fault lines between the migrants and the middle class are very real. Petty crime - theft, primarily - is common; and rarely do the two groups interact. Qiu, the young woman who loaded bricks, told...
Despite Musharraf's efforts to silence them, activists like Ahsan aren't going away. And in the long run, Ahsan's pro-democracy movement may threaten Musharraf's grip on power as much as the jihadist insurgency that has made parts of the country ungovernable. The lawyers' demonstrations exposed Musharraf's growing unpopularity among his own people. Musharraf had hoped to salvage some legitimacy by entering an ill-fated partnership with former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. (Ahsan is a member of her Pakistan People's Party [PPP], but she didn't support the lawyers' movement.) Bhutto was already backing away...
...year-old widowed grandmother, I am thrilled that young voters care again. I can't fathom, however, why young women aren't incensed that in the 232-year history of this country, we have never had a woman President. To the young lady who said she wouldn't vote for Clinton because she might lose, I ask, How will you feel 60 years from now when women say they won't vote for your granddaughter because she might lose? If past generations of women had been so lily-livered, the young lady you quoted wouldn't have had the chance...
...Iraq subsided: millions of Iraqi refugees have fled neighborhoods to escape sectarian cleansing. Our military personnel have fought bravely and well during their deployment in Iraq--I'm not calling into question their service--but much of the sectarian violence has stopped simply because in many Iraqi neighborhoods there aren't any enemies left to kill. Jim Bettag, DE SOTO...