Growing in stature the Sarkozy way

This was last June.  Now they bus short people in, so Sarko looks the part.

Carla Bruni, who stands nearly five inches taller than her husband, grumbled this summer that people paid too much attention to the fact that she always wore completely flat soles in his presence. "I understand that the media prefer to talk about my pumps more than my global foundation or the fight against illiteracy," she said.

Do you find that pumps, global initiatives and illiteracy are on people's minds when they talk about Carla?