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...Americans may not know squat about collateralized debt obligations, but as a nation we have been defined by car worship. We are angry at our car gods - who for too many years made too many clunkers - because we have owned the Dodge Aries K cars, Mercury Montereys and Chevy Chev-ettes they produced. So the citizens and the pols are irked to have to throw these companies a lifeline, even though they probably should do it for the good of the economy. An out-of-business GM (or even a bankrupt, reorganized one) is more than just a dead factory...
...that Chirac, running in his fourth presidential election, is blocking their ascent. Jospin's coalition is creaking at the seams as voters desert the communists and the greens squabble. The sense of déja vu is intensified by the next two candidates. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement, third in the polls, draws support from a backward-looking array of old socialists and nationalists. The leader of the extreme right-wing National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who ranks fourth, was first elected to parliament in 1956. Le Pen is trailed closely in the polls by Arlette...
...governments since 1975. Conservative detractors like Nicole Ameline, spokeswoman for the centrist Liberal Democracy Party, argued the bill legitimizes "violence as a means of gaining political recognition." Other rightists condemned it as "preparing independence." The loudest protests came from Jospin's own leftist majority. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement - who resigned last year in protest against Jospin's plans - decried the bill, asking, "Who is so naive to believe that whatever is granted to Corsicans today won't also be demanded tomorrow by the Basques, Bretons, Savoyards?" Similar misgivings were privately voiced by other leftists...
...here because she doesn't know how much longer she can hold out," says Barrett, 23, who has served three years on drug charges at Hernando Correctional in Florida. She rides the bus to Reading Family Ties in Miami once a month so Chevas, 6, and Chev'Qavia, 4, can have a virtual visit with their...
...Basketball vs. Chev Chevakata (Russian club team...