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...Giscard d'Estaing achieved a rare victory from that middle ground in 1974. Now, once again, says Bayrou, "there are millions of French people who want out of the perpetual confrontation between the left and the right." The candidate is traveling through Normandy to a rally in Evreux. When he's not out campaigning, Bayrou likes to unwind driving one of his tractors. That machine would come in handy for uprooting the nation's two largest parties, which he compares to "big trees that have become rotten inside...
...seen French voters turf out the incumbents in every parliamentary election of the last 25 years. He lists further symptoms. Extreme-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the second round of the 2002 presidential elections and is running strong now too. Jacques Chirac, the outgoing President, found common ground with his Socialist opponents to promote the proposed European constitution, which was nevertheless voted down in a May 2005 referendum by a huge majority. Strikes and riots regularly convulse France. For Bayrou, it's all proof that the nation's political leadership no longer bothers to listen to the people...
...Harvard police continued to investigate the incident in which a student fell through a ground-floor window at Quincy House last week, House officials yesterday sought to assuage student fears and said it was unlikely that anyone from outside the University was involved. A roommate of the victim said he doubted that the incident was the result of a malicious attack. The roommate added that the victim was in the hospital yesterday, having surgery on his hand. The Crimson is withholding the names of the victim and his roommate because the victim could not be contacted yesterday. The March...
...group, the Resource Efficiency Program (REP), enjoys an unusual relationship with Harvard. The program, started in 2002, received over $300,000 from Harvard to get off the ground and the College now invests over $120,000 in REP annually. Each REP leader is also paid an hourly wage to encourage them to get out the sustainable word...
...Southern Poverty Law Center's Mary Bauer, one of the lead attorneys on the Decatur case. "Middleman recruiters profit from trafficking as many workers as possible because they get paid per worker-employer match." By her calculations, The Accent Group, the U.S. firm Decatur subcontracted to find on-the-ground recruiters such as Edu Exchange's Rasmussen, made $350,000 on the Decatur contracts alone...