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...Harvard dance community.Comparing the selection process for “So You Think You Can Dance?” to that of “American Idol,” Oladehin gives a sense of the tough odds he faced to make it to Vegas.“The first-round auditions were held in early March at the Manhattan Center, on the corner of 28th and 8th Avenue. And so the line went from that corner, all the way down 28th till 9th Avenue, wrapped around 9th, and then went down 29th all the way to that other corner...
...André Santini, one of half a dozen udf mainstays who have moved into the Sarkozy camp, says, "We've already seen Sarkozy talking more about Bayrou's issues, like cutting the debt and reinforcing social supports." Santini adds: "You have to go back decades to see a first-round result like Sarkozy's. If he's a 'divider,' he's done pretty well." Royal, meanwhile, desperately needs to entice Bayrou's voters if she's to close the 5% gap between her and Sarkozy. She will no doubt try to make the most of her softer image, which...
...Sarkozy won more than 31% of the returns, vs. nearly 26% for Royal, setting up a classic left-right contest for the May 6 runoff. France is enthralled. It's the first matchup of candidates born after World War II, and with high unemployment and immigration boiling issues, the stakes are enormous. Royal desperately needs the votes of centrist Franois Bayrou, who took 18.5% of the first-round tally. She has reached out to Bayrou, but the would-be kingmaker is refusing to endorse either finalist. Sarkozy seems to have won nearly half the voters who in 2002 gave...
...uphill climb. Although Royal's first round vote tally of 25.8% is better than Francois Mitterrand's performance in his victorious 1981 presidential run, Sarkozy's 31.1% is even more formidable. While the Socialist candidate can count on the backing of most far-left candidates in the runoff, their first-round share added with the Socialists' is only 36.2%. And if much of Jean Marie Le Pen's 10.4% transfer their support to the tough-on-immigration Sarkozy, the outcome of the presidential race will be decided by the 18.5% of voters who backed split-the-difference centrist Francois Bayrou...
...buzz Sunday night on Rue Solferino was that to lure Bayrou voters behind Royal, Socialists would seize on another factor in first-round polling: Le Pen's collapse, which saw his share of the vote almost halved from the tally he scored in 2002. Much of that erosion, analysts say, came as a result of Sarkozy's unabashed efforts to seduce Le Pen voters with hard-line positions on crime, immigration, and dealing with France's troubled suburban housing projects. Socialist supporters believe that by associating Sarkozy with the politics of Le Pen, they can persuade centrist voters to back...