Friday, May 11, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
John Rosenthal: Nicolas Sarkozy: Scourge of the Banlieues? - '...Anyone reading Rieff's account or indeed virtually any of the English-language reports on the tensions in the poor, dilapidated suburbs on the outskirts of France's major urban centers would indeed be led to believe that "all" the residents of the French banlieues hate Nicolas Sarkozy. But the results of last Sunday's election tell a quite different story...'
