The worst thing Bill Clinton did was not receiving oral pleasure from Monica. It was not bombing a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum. Perhaps not even letting al-Qaeda and the Taliban grow, nor even maintaining an embargo on Iraq, which killed some 500 thousand people through lack of medicine and food. No, the worst thing he did may well be messing with the Balkans and backing ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.

On October 26, 2006, six kids, all under 18, all from immigrant families, boarded a crowded bus in Marseille, threw gasoline and lit a match.  A Senegalese student did not get out in time and was burned over 60% of her body. She is still in hospital. The trial opens next week. 

I was wrong.  If there was one thing I thought Sarkozy could not radically change, it was French Foreign Policy.  

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Aug. 31: 

The Zimbabweans are a very calm and friendly, polite people.  This may seem strange given the extreme hardships they are facing.

There are some 4.2 million closed-circuit TV (CCTV) cameras in Britain. That is one for every 14 people. You are literally filmed hundreds of times every day in London.

The French government wants to see more of its citizens too. To do this, Interior Minister, Michèle Aliot Marie, says she will triple the number of cameras now in place.

Yesterday a colleague accused me of doing a pro-Hamas story.  This is a strange accusation to those who know my distaste for Muslim Fundamentalism.  The question being raised here is whether ‘objectivity’ can be translated as bias. 

President Nicolas Sarkozy has been in power for 100 days and I still have not figured out how his economic policies are going to create jobs and spark economic growth.

If anything allows the press to say news is a science, it is all in the art of rigorous verification before publication.  It is what has made American journalism so dependable.   

US reporters know what they write can adversely affect people’s lives. This is why they make sure 100% of what they write is 100% correct …