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...voters' rejection of Chirac suggests that the French may have some congenital inability to face the competitive realities of the modern world. Most French analysts, however, put the blame on a failure of leadership. "Yes, the French have clung to an old social model, but by default," says economist Albert Bressand. "No other policy was articulated to them. The French are slow to modernize because of inappropriate leadership left and right...
...tournament seeded the Red Raiders fifth by default more than anything--putting them lower would be unfair, as it would place them behind a team that finished third in its division; but putting them higher was unwarranted...
...classes she uses a lot of experimental fiction from Europe, and so offers to her students a much broader, more exciting range of fictional possibilities, rather than simply the default style of staple Kmart realism used in many creative writing courses across the country," Jenkins said...
...There's a misperception that taking time off is a cop out," Jennifer Lee says. "But the default action is continuing school. Taking time off actually shows employers that you don't always go with the status...
...clear that Albright means to play a role unlike any Secretary of State before her--and is now consolidating the power she will need to do so. And, of course, no one is better suited to reinvent this role than a woman who, by design or default, has learned to reinvent herself so often...