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...Vietnamese government to allow individuals to peacefully exercise their rights of the freedom of speech without fear or recrimination." Whether Hanoi is prepared to listen could be seen later this year: police recently arrested a pair of human-rights lawyers and Bloc 8406 supporters, Nguyen Van Dai and Le Thi Cong Nhan, who had organized training sessions for political activists in the capital. They, too, are charged under Article 88. It's unknown whether their eventual trials will be so open...
Hoping to repeat his shock 2002 election performance in which he made it to a runoff with President Jacques Chirac, Jean-Marie Le Pen has undergone a major image makeover. Guided by his youngest daughter and campaign strategist, Marine, the leader of the far-right National Front uses softer language to sell more inclusive policies. Although he's currently polling around 13%, French analysts warn that similarly low numbers had preceded his 2002 shock second-place finish. Marine Le Pen discussed her father's evolution and prospects with TIME's Bruce Crumley...
...escalators, ventilation ducts, even its steel structural framework - were put on the outside, making it easier to produce large, uninterrupted gallery spaces within. Rogers (and Piano) took the Modernist rule that a building should clearly express its structure and extended it into realms where Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier never ventured...
That's because the French political class is woefully out of touch with the populace, says Bayrou, adding that this malaise has 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...
...Little House,” Burgin explores the eighteenth-century European fascination with the “Oriental.” This fascination is apparent in the exotic descriptions of the rooms in “Le Petite Maison,” which Burgin sets off against the modernist Schindler House...