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...Daddy's Boy" and congratulated him on his work to protect France's cosseted élite. Video of the encounter ran on French TV for days. "The idea is to call attention in a fun and festive way to concrete problems and [the] unfair situations a lot of people face, but few think they can contest," says Karima Delli, a Black Thursday and Save the Rich member who was elected to the European Parliament on an environmental ticket in June. "Unlike earlier protest movements, ours isn't beholden to any party. Our supporters range from centrists to extreme leftists...
Beginning about four years ago, Bayou and buddies Manuel Domergue and Lionel Primault identified a handful of specific problems that thousands, if not millions, of people face every day. Then they created groups dedicated to those individual causes, with perhaps a dozen full-time members running each. Every group comes up with creative and often wickedly funny new ways to focus attention to their issue, drawing in supporters and hordes of journalists who don't want to miss a good story. It has proved wildly successful. "What you have is a small number of brilliant people taking up problems that...
...poor area herself, says that's why the movement cuts across class and racial lines. "Our array of single-issue causes actually looks more like a checklist of problems - like economic chaos, mass youth unemployment, global warming and falling expectations - that this generation is having to face for the first time," says Delli. "New challenges require new responses." And in France, it helps if it's done with a little flair...
...Hatoyama's party, nevertheless, appears ready to meet the big challenges his new administration will face. With an economy in crisis, record unemployment and faltering welfare systems, the DPJ is already looking for all the help it can get. The party is expected to meet on Monday with the leftist Social Democratic Party and the conservative People's New Party to discuss the possibility of forming a coalition. As Hatoyama said Sunday night, "We have been fighting, thinking we have to change politics, and now we are about to realize it." The Japanese people have set the ball rolling...
...Senator's wife Victoria was the picture of dignity walking along the sloped ground with her hand on her son's arm; on her face she wore a look of utter and exhausted sadness. She had given a 100-hour tutorial on composure and grace. On the way to Arlington, the hearse paused outside the Senate chamber where Kennedy had served longer than all but two men in the nation's history. Victoria Reggie Kennedy stepped from the motorcade and a great cheer went up. She hugged current and former members of her husband's staff, waved softly, blew gentle...