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...Sarkozy. Many elected officials from the udf are open to persuasion by their historical allies on the right. But Bayrou's voters are another story: polls suggest Royal could attract almost half of them, while Sarkozy is the remaining choice for only a quarter. Yet some of them are bound to resist any lures from either Sarko or Ségo. "Both of them talk about protecting us - the mother protector and the father protector," says Renaud Gaultier, an industrial designer in Paris. "I have a mother and father; I'm an adult, and I don't need this infantile...
...these questions are ultimately irrelevant. For better or worse, as the population of five million grows, SL is bound to garner more attention from politicians, who hardly need reminding that a few thousand votes one way or the other can make the difference. In a tight election campaign, like the recent French one, we shouldn’t be surprised to see politicians and their staffers logging-in to SL. In fact, we should embrace the democratization of SL and related experiments in political engagement that reach out to a marginalized, but otherwise discriminating and informed audience. After...
...overriding American interest of halting Baghdad's sectarian war long enough for the U.S. to declare victory and bring home its troops. But neither the Sunnis nor the Shi'ites want to halt the war - they want to win it. Barriers designed to lock in the status quo were bound to provoke opposition in both communities...
...team. The winners of each event will automatically earn a spot, while other high-placing finishers will be selected by coaches to join the squad. The Harvard-Yale team will take the highest-placing athletes of the day, but each school must comprise at least 1/3 of the England-bound group...
There was bound to be anger and accusations in the aftermath, and these too went ricocheting through the campus. Wednesday morning even brought a death threat against university president Charles Steger. Why hadn't more been done when it became clear to students and faculty that there there was a very troubled young man in their midst, and why hadn't the school been locked down immediately after the first shootings were reported? "I think the university has blood on their hands because of their lack of action after the first incident," said freshman Billy Bason, 18, who lived...