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...stakes," said Lionel Jospin, who, you might have thought, would have had the decency to stay silent: Jospin was so disastrous a Socialist presidential candidate in 2002 that he was beaten in the first round of voting not just by Chirac but by the far-right demagogue Jean-Marie...
...among activists. Socialist Party membership rolls have almost doubled since the beginning of the year, and more of the newcomers are female, better educated and younger than the average. As a crowd filed into a desperately hot market hall in Rennes to hear Royal speak one evening this summer, Jean-Pierre Planckaert was at the back of the hall taking in new party applications. Party membership in the region had almost trebled since the beginning of the year, he said, "and the new members are 15 years younger on average than the old ones." That isn't politics; that...
...weren't surprised this story ran absolutely everywhere, from USA Today to the Hindustan Times - who doesn't enjoy debating whether boys or girls are weaker? It seemed fitting that the story landed the same day that Billie Jean King, victor over Bobby Riggs in the 1973 "Battle of the Sexes," was crowned with her name on the National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows...
...HONORED. Billie Jean King, 62, trailblazing athlete and social activist; by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), which named the National Tennis Center, home to the U.S. Open, for the champion; in New York City. In recognizing King?a loud voice for gays, women and other minorities?the association gave up millions it could have earned in corporate naming rights, but succeeded, said USTA chief Arlen Kantarian, at making it "clear that some things are not for sale." King won 39 Grand Slam titles, successfully lobbied for equal pay at the Open and famously trounced chauvinist Bobby Riggs...
HONORED. Billie Jean King, 62, trailblazing athlete and social activist; by the United States Tennis Association, which named the National Tennis Center, home to the U.S. Open, for the champion; in New York City. In recognizing King--a loud voice for gays, women and other minorities--the USTA gave up millions it could have earned in corporate naming rights but succeeded, said USTA chief Arlen Kantarian, at making it "clear that some things are not for sale." King won 39 Grand Slam titles, successfully lobbied for equal pay at the Open, jump-started the women's tour and famously trounced...