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...however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study on whether participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways...
...more open and democratic one, his comments were widely criticized as caricaturizing and racist. In recalling them during her Dakar visit, Royal asked for "pardon for those humiliating words that never should have been spoken, and which-I tell you in all certainty-represent neither France or the French people...
...French conservatives responded with immediate outrage-just as Royal had intended. Indeed, given the unbridled fury that both of Sarkozy's public pronouncements produced, one might expect Royal's serial apologizing to have thrilled fellow Socialists. Think again. Though most leftists were pleased to see Sarkozy squirm during the international press storm his reported swipes at fellow leaders set off, few approved of Royal's apology on behalf of a nation that had said "no thanks" to her offer to lead it. (Read "Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy...
...speak in France's name, because that role isn't hers," Socialist legislator Jean-Marie Le Guen said on Monday on French news channel LCI, noting that even if Royal's criticism of Sarkozy's Dakar comments was justified, her penchant for apologies isn't. "A rhetoric based on excusing oneself is out of line, it seems to me, in the same way that the rhetorical foundation of Sarkozy's [insults...
...Meanwhile, a flurry of polls find the once popular Royal now badly trailing most Socialist Party leaders as the best person to take Sarkozy on for the presidency in 2012. But that, French political analysts agree, is precisely why Royal has chosen such an explosive method of reacting to Sarkozy. Sure, the immediate fall-out may earn her criticism from fellow pols and the public alike - but the alternative would be to do nothing for the next three years, and risk people forgetting that she and her presidential ambitions exist...