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Chelsea Clinton (L) and former US President Bill Clinton watch as US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at the National Building Museum in Washington June 7, 2008. Clinton endorsed presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) to be the Democratic U.S. presidential candidate on Saturday and suspended her own White House bid less than a week after the Illinois senator secured enough support to win the nomination. Clinton's endorsement of Obama in a speech at the National Building Museum marked the beginning of efforts to reunite the Democratic Party after a long and divisive campaign battle that ended on Tuesday when Obama won the support of enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
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...that has kept them safe. "They have rigorous banking rules, wise bankers; the Spanish are doing pretty well," said Francois Heisbourg, a French political analyst. Similar caution exists at the street level. American families are as leveraged as their banks,...
...that demand steps from Iran (to curtail its nuclear activities), and who take those resolutions seriously," says Francois Heisbourg, special adviser at the Foundation for Strategic Research, a think tank in Paris. But in European eyes, Mr. Obama will start...
...territories by Oct. 10. "We need to wait and see if Russia pulls all its troops out of the buffer zones on Oct. 10," says Francois Heisbourg, special adviser to the Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris. "In the EU, there's a tight link between implementing...
...Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi opposed any sanctions against Russia. Analysts differ about the importance of Sarkozy's role. Francois Heisbourg of the state-backed Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris gave the French leader «high marks» for bringing...
...Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi opposed any sanctions against Russia. Analysts differ about the importance of Sarkozy's role. Francois Heisbourg of the state-backed Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris gave the French leader «high marks» for bringing...
...Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi opposed any sanctions against Russia. Analysts differ about the importance of Sarkozy's role. Francois Heisbourg of the state-backed Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris gave the French leader «high marks» for bringing...
...Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi opposed any sanctions against Russia. Analysts differ about the importance of Sarkozy's role. Francois Heisbourg, of the state-backed Foundation for Strategic Research in Paris, gave the French leader "high marks" for bringing...
...now believes that Russia will give it a raison d'etre. MADRID -- Three years ago, an influential French academic named Francois Heisbourg made a splash with a book with a provocative question as its title: "The End of the West?" Heisbourg asserted that the...
Quotes spotlight for "Francois Heisbourg"
A characteristic of the Italian banking system is its less sophisticated character that has protected us from elements of the crisis we see in other European countries
said Giulio Tremonti
in Malaysia Sun
They have rigorous banking rules, wise bankers; the Spanish are doing pretty well
said Francois Heisbourg
in Malaysia Sun
In these circumstances, anything that removes you from the main circuitry is good for you
said Francois Heisbourg
in Malaysia Sun
The vulgar, crass consumption of Americans has been the engine of the global economy for a very long time
was said
in Malaysia Sun
Now what happens? What if Americans become like Europeans and start saving more and consuming less?
was said
in Malaysia Sun
But to us, he can't be worse than Bush and his attitude to international negotiations ... Obama's never committed to signing a new climate agreement under a U.N. framework but he wants to reengage and he's said he wants to address deforestation and provide projects in developing countries, clean energy.
said Mark Breddy
