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Despite French voters’ rejection of a new constitution for the European Union in 2005 (in part a protest vote against Chirac), all three candidates recognize that the EU has been an important means to enhance French power in world affairs.

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Unresolved boundary issues, squabbles over oil revenues, the ongoing conflict in Darfur, escalating tribal violence in the south and generally weak state capacity across all of Sudan complete a very depressing picture of the state of affairs in Africa's largest country.

These are community affairs, by the way.

If you ask neuroscientists why is this the state of affairs, first, they'll admit it.

And so it was the daily slew of Indian heads and this "redskin" slur everywhere, while my job was going up on the Hill and trying to lobby for hospitals, for funding for schools, for basic government services, and being told again and again that Indian people were incapable of managing our own affairs.

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