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They’re not the only Harvardian heads of state. French President Jacques Chirac attended Summer School here in 1953, and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe earned a certificate in administration and management from the Harvard Extension School in 1993. (And President Bush, though a dyed-in-the-blue Yalie, is a 1975 Harvard Business School alum...
...That's exactly the conclusion the French authorities reached earlier this year. In May, Denis traveled from her home in St.-Germain-en-Laye, an affluent Parisian commuter town, to the capital. There, in the Salle des Fêtes of the Elysées Palace, French President Jacques Chirac presented her with the Médaille de la Famille Française - the medal of the French family, founded in the '20s to express the nation's gratitude for fecundity. In France, a quartet of children might net their mother a bronze award, six or seven could snare...
...noting a drop in sentencings of offenders. "Police can't get the result residents have a right to expect if afterward delinquents are set free again," he said. As a Minister's criticisms of a state institution, his comments drew a swift rebuke from many fronts, including President Jacques Chirac, who said lawmakers need to "respect judges' independence." But acting like a candidate already on the campaign trail, Sarkozy pre-empted such reprimands. "The French know I'm right," he said earlier, and "it's the judgment of the French people that counts...
...current trial in Paris is no less politically sensitive, even if it involves events that occurred almost a generation ago. After his defeat in 1988 presidential elections, Jacques Chirac bounced back into the political fray by winning a so-called "grand slam" in the Paris mayoral elections the next year. His political allies triumphed in every one of the city's 20 districts, but it was a close thing: his sub-mayor in the 3rd arrondissement, Jacques Dominati, squeaked through with a margin of just 20 votes. Opponents charged that Dominati and his allies, including his sons Laurent and Philippe...
...Still, it's not as if there are no second acts in French politics. Alain Jupp?, the former prime minister and close Chirac ally convicted in 2004 for his role in a scheme to put party workers on the Paris city payroll, is proving as much. After a forced vacation from civic life, much of it spent teaching politics in Quebec, Jupp? is back in play this autumn. Last month party colleagues in his power base of Bordeaux resigned en masse from the city council, forcing new elections. Jupp? is expected to walk to victory next month as the mayor...