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...Though neither side seems poised to land a killer blow, the latest polls bear troubling news for the conservatives. Longtime rightist bastions like Lyons and Toulouse could fall to the Socialists and their allies, and the left seems likely to retain fiefdoms like Strasbourg, Rennes and Lille. Though conservatives still retain a solid grip on Marseilles and Bordeaux, Delanoë's Socialist-led ticket looks set to wrest Paris away from the Gaullists for the first time in 24 years...
Eight years, and no defense. But the bear was content...
...bright side, practically every other kind of aid has been pouring into Gujarat?food, water, blankets, tents, volunteers. More than any previous natural calamity, the earthquake has sent Indians everywhere into a frenzy of giving. The trucks streaming past Girishbhai's kitchen bear the license plates of 20 different states. (I counted.) Every religious group you can name has a camp and kitchen in and around Bhuj. Even Tibetan refugees have pitched in. Some folks have gone overboard in their generosity. There is a surplus of used garments, sent by the truckload from all over India. Just outside Bhuj...
...then there are the walking wounded: the thousands of survivors whose minds cannot yet comprehend the full extent of their tragedy. Dozens of people who come to our kitchen bear the telltale signs of a nervous breakdown in progress, the stuttering, the facial tics. Many others are in deep denial, like Varsha, a Bhuj housewife in her late thirties. The apartment block that housed her third-floor flat has collapsed. Although she and her family were unhurt, the sight of all their worldly possessions going to dust has left her unbalanced. Every day, from dawn till dusk, she stands guard...
Karsanbhai returns in the evening, grimy from sweat and worn from walking all day without food or water. He can't bear to look Sumati in the eye. "Any news?" she asks, keeping her voice as matter-of-fact as a mother's anxiety will allow. She knows the answer before Karsanbhai can deliver it: "No. Maybe tomorrow." At night, Sumati breaks down and wails for her missing son. Karsanbhai admonishes her: "Why are you grieving for somebody who isn't dead? You know we will find him, it's only a matter of days." An hour later...