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Seeking to explain the result, some critics have charged that Jospin simply lacked charisma and that his distant, professorial manner alienated too many potential voters. Others have pointed out that the left-wing vote was split by a proliferation of small, competing parties whose very success robbed the Socialist party of the votes it needed to finish in second place. Still others have suggested that a sense of complacency had developed within France’s two main parties and that they were upstaged by a crafty campaign from Le Pen’s National Front. None of these views...
Using equivalent logic, I am not going to miss my closest friends from Harvard. Of course, there will be the expected life changes that will send friends off to distant shores or distant men, but I am confident that my closest friends will forever hold important parts in my life: vacation buddy, psychologist, bridesmaid, godparent, shopping partner...
...finished a distant third and was not a factor in the race...
...terms with the fact that reasonable people still believe in an almighty deity who authored earth and heaven. They accept this strangely persistent fantasy largely because they assume, perhaps rightly, that most of Harvard’s Christians are really latter-day deists, conceiving of God as a distant, prehistoric clockmaker, setting the world in motion and then stepping back, safely out of the picture. They even accept the persistence of prayer with good grace, acknowledging its much-touted psychological benefits while assuming that no sane person would actually expect God to answer...
...start, but they could not sustain their fast pace. Radcliffe caught up by the 700-meter mark and pulled in front at the halfway point. The Black and White won the race by the five-seconds over Syracuse, who were the defending cup champions, while Dartmouth finished a distant third...