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...came a torrent of shouts. "Why can't you answer the question...
Which means that the more salient question might actually be: Who is Nicolas Sarkozy? The answer depends on when you study him. Is he the man elected President in May 2007, who immediately set out to lower income taxes, scrap France's 35-hour workweek, revoke special retirement privileges for public-transport workers, and harangue employees to "work more to earn more"? Or is he the leader who in the past year has slapped down greedy bankers, fumed at U.S. and British resistance to French plans for strict new regulations of the global finance sector, and preached the gospel...
...denounced a Swiss referendum to block the construction of minarets--mosque towers from which Muslims are called to prayer--as discriminatory and xenophobic. More than 57% of voters supported the ban, put forward by the far-right Swiss People's Party. "It is a bad answer to a bad question," an official from the Organization of the Islamic Conference told reporters. "I fear that this kind of thing is simply a gift to extremism and intolerance...
...confront costly realities and the soaring sweep of campaign promises gets lost in programmatic details. Since last spring, there has been a sizable drop in the portion of voters who think Washington should guarantee health insurance, with Gallup now recording--for the first time since it began asking the question--more people saying it is not the government's responsibility (50%) than saying...
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