http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/world/asia/18india.html?ex=1374120000&en=e67407de4b92313c&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2008/02/nicolas-and-car.html

What a soap opera! All we get over here is criminals and idiots. For now, anyway.

Nicolas aime Carla!!!

http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/2007/12/sarkozys-new-lo.html

(Continuing my tradition of late of soaking up all the gossip of other people's eventful romantic lives...)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/weekinreview/12kolata.html?ex=1344571200&en=6837b6ddff4d8bd6&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalinkRead more... )

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/12/AR2006081200890.html

"So polarized are the two sides that after Mr. Brooks summoned a statistician to demonstrate improvements in the schools at a recent board meeting, his opponents summoned another statistician to demonstrate precisely the opposite."(http://www.nytimes

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-823448,54-904808,0.html

Sigh.