IS NICOLAS SARKOZY THE FRENCH JOHN
McCAIN?
John McCain and
Nicolas Sarkozy mirror and echo each other in unexpected ways: near-racist
anti-immigrant appeals, a dispirited party out of ideas, and the slavish
calculus of poll-driven politics. Sarkozy's first year reveals that strategies that win elections
don't necessarily help you govern -- and the French Gaullist President and Republican Presidential nominee may
be drinking each other's strategy juice. Harold Hyman comments from Paris.
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also:
GEORGE W. BUSH STAMPED "IDIOT KING" FIRST-CLASS
FOREVER
As the U.S. Post Office raises stamp prices, the
official USPS Forever Stamp may be selling out, but it will never be as
memorable as the George W. Bush 'Idiot King' stamp from Houston artist David
Krueger
plus:
ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ: MYTH, MUSCLE, BUT THE WRONG
MUSIC
Half-men, half-horses flex their muscular bodies to produce startling
sculptural effects in Centaures but even near-nakedness won't distract
an audience from the torture of the music in the Frenchman's new work,
Eldorado.
and:
ONE ERUPTION, 500 TALES
Some 500 works of art and artifacts tell the stories of the final days of
Pompeii and the nearby resort cities of Herculaneum, Oplontis and Terzigno
following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
