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...they weren't being laid out by a woman. "It's a symbol of change," she says. "Where men have failed, people think, O.K., maybe we'll try a woman." Her position has only been strengthened by the disdain she's drawn from rivals like former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, who archly asked last year, "Who will take care of the children?" She doesn't duck the obvious fact that, in a nation whose politics is run by men in suits, she is different. "Why," she asked in a recent interview with Time, "should one have to be sad, ugly...
...When she first emerged as a potential candidate last fall, it seemed that Royal's gender was the problem. ("Who will watch the children?," acidly observed former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius - who soon realized he was corroding his own reputation in saying so.) Now it's the fact that she has become so popular - or more precisely how she's done it - that's upped the dander of Socialist party dinosaurs. Earlier this week, former Education Minister Claude Allegre described Royal as having "an immense talent for self-promotion" - which in French politics is an insult...
...party leaders believe there's a Socialist line to be toed, and Royal's stylish stilettos are out of bounds; even Hollande has voiced some concern. Perennials like Fabius and former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who both think it's finally their turn to accede to a presidential candidacy, have been hoping that Royal's blatant appeal to the center will alienate party members, who will select the Socialist candidate in two rounds of voting next fall. "S?gol?ne may win the first round," says one source close to Strauss-Kahn, "But we're hoping everyone else will join...
Only naive Americans would invest so much money in a country where anti-Americanism is spreading. President François Mitterrand openly attacks the U.S., and Premier Laurent Fabius blames America for every French ill. Disney Chairman Michael Eisner has made a mistake in choosing the Marne-la-Vallée for the company's first European Disney theme park. Bad weather in that region will keep this amusement park closed at least four months a year. My prediction: Eisner will lose "his" $1.8 billion and will be forced to pack Mickey's bags and run to Spain begging forgiveness. Anthony Mantykowsky...
...Paris, where he proclaimed, "It is time to say that [those] who have been governing us do not represent either the values or the history of France and have to go!" The Socialists also trotted out some vote-getting rhetoric. "I promise you, my friends," cried Premier Laurent Fabius, "that if we stay in power, a year from now France will have inflation of 2%--among the lowest rates in the world!" To back that claim, the Socialists produced the most recent monthly inflation figures. They showed that in February consumer prices had actually declined .2%. That was the best...