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...even given Jospin's weakness as a candidate, it was still a shock when he got fewer votes in the first round of the election than Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Front. Le Pen will now meet President Jacques Chirac - a mainstream conservative - in a runoff on May 5. The National Front's success, wrote the editor of Le Monde last week, has "wounded" and "humiliated" France. Le Pen won't become President; Chirac is all but guaranteed to win the runoff in a landslide, as many supporters of the left, holding their noses...
...Jean-Marie Messier certainly made a splash when he moved to New York City from Paris last year. He settled into a $17.5 million Park Avenue duplex and started popping up at Metropolitan Opera soirees and in the gossip pages. Perhaps that's fitting, since Messier is a former water-company executive who became a man-about-town and a French business celebrity by turning Compagnie Generale des Eaux into a $51 billion global media giant, Vivendi Universal. Messier did it by orchestrating a series of stock-and-cash deals for American assets such as Universal Studios and USA Networks...
Person of the Week HARD RIGHT He was dismissed as nothing more than a fringe figure, but ultra-conservative French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen showed that his anti-immigrant, anti-E.U. stance has worrying appeal when he earned the right to run off against Jacques Chirac in France's presidential election...
...Labor Day - when much of Europe takes a holiday, and the left takes to the streets. This year's big demonstrations promise to stir up deep ideological passions, about everything from immigration to Third World debt to free speech. In Paris, opponents of surprise presidential runner-up Jean-Marie Le Pen plan to confront the far-right nationalist as he leads his annual march in honor of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year. Well, what about labor...
...country that prides itself on the Revolutionary ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, the surprisingly strong showing of far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of presidential balloting is both unexpected and deeply distressing. But the French contrarian streak was out in force last Sunday when the nation gave Le Pen one of the two spots in the May 5 run-off for president...