• Before Bloomberg’s Anti-Smoking Push, There Was Haverstraw, N.Y. - NYTimes.com

    C’est déjà le cas en Norvège depuis un an ou deux. AVec des résultats très mitigés.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/nyregion/before-bloombergs-anti-smoking-push-there-was-haverstraw-ny.html?nl=todaysh

    Put Cigarettes Out of View? It’s Been Tried

    Mayor Michael Kohut of Haverstraw, N.Y., says he welcomes having New York City’s mayor take up an antismoking cause.
    By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
    Published: March 19, 2013

    When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg this week announced his latest salvo against smoking, his press office put out a news flash: “City Would Be First in Nation to Keep Tobacco Products Out of Sight.”

  • Seeking Lessons From Iraq. But Which Ones ? - NYTimes.com
    http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/world/middleeast/iraq-war-offers-lessons-for-syria-and-iran.html

    En tout cas, concernant les prémisses de ses articles il n’y a pas de dilemme pour le New York Times, elles restent les mêmes.

    The C.I.A., having missed critical nuclear developments in Pakistan and many other nations, did not want to be caught making the same mistake again. And Mr. Bush and his vice president, Dick Cheney, were not exactly looking for alternative explanations, as Mr. Hadley indicated.

    “The problem was that, with the Iraqi W.M.D., the policy makers wanted bad news,” said James Dobbins of the RAND Corporation, who has held many government posts. “They wanted to confirm that Iraq had W.M.D., and the intelligence analysts were inclined to move in that direction anyway,” since “it would be even worse if they predicted they didn’t have W.M.D. and it turned out they did.”

    Mr. Obama’s team, while seemingly convinced that Iran wants a weapons capability, has stopped short of saying that any decision has been made to take the final steps toward a weapon. And the C.I.A. and other intelligence agencies, not wanting to repeat their most recent mistake, have been similarly cautious.

    But in their more candid moments, some of Mr. Obama’s current and former advisers say they fear “strategic surprise,’’ the discovery that they missed something – a hidden nuclear facility, a decision by political leaders in Iran that they failed to pick up. In short, they fear making the error that worried leaders most before the bitter experience of Iraq.

  • Économie : Chypre : le Parlement rejette le plan de sauvetage - BFMTV.com
    http://www.bfmtv.com/economie/chypre-parlement-rejette-plan-sauvetage-474000.html

    Le Parlement chypriote a voté contre le plan de sauvetage de l’Union européenne et du FMI, ce mardi 19 mars. Pourtant l’Eurogroupe lui avait donné un peu de souplesse.
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    Le Parlement, où aucun parti ne dispose de la majorité absolue des 56 sièges, s’est prononcé contre le projet de loi par 36 voix contre et 19 abstentions.

    D’après WP, il y a 59 sièges : 56 élus au scrutin proportionnel et 3 représentants de minorités confessionnelles. Apparemment, la composition de la Chambre des représentants est celle des élections de 2006 et n’est donc pas à jour.

    Il y aurait donc eu 4 votes pour.