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With his professorial looks and wooden rhetoric, Lionel Jospin is nobody's idea of a charismatic candidate. His detractors claim he is boring, strident and stiff as a broom handle; the best his supporters can say about him is that he is earnest, honest and faithful to Socialist ideals. Yet the onetime economics teacher and former Education Minister pulled off a small miracle last week: within two days of winning the Socialist Party's presidential nomination, he saw his poll ratings rise four points. The modest increase was the first sign that the beleaguered Socialists might actually survive into...
Maybe he would feel more at home in Lionel A entry, where room 11 was packed with rowdy young men who wouldn't tell me their last names. Like Thierman, two were trying to finish Math 25b homework. They were not getting much done...
...worry about is a serious challenge from the left. A month ago, the polls showed outgoing European Commission President Jacques Delors, a Socialist, well out in front. But Delors' decision not to run left the Socialists without a credible candidate. None of the announced hopefuls--former Education Minister Lionel Jospin, 57; former Culture Minister Jack Lang, 55; and party leader Henri Emmanuelli, 49--has a broad national following. As things stand, the Socialists might well be eliminated in the first stage of the two-round presidential contest on April...
...winner of the John Eliot Scholarship, named for a 1622 graduate of Cambridge's Jesus College who went on to found Roxbury Latin School and become a Harvard Overseer, will join the Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Scholar and the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar for a year at John Harvard's alma mater...
Members of the private sector who were present saw in those words a promising turn. "There was a sense today that some lessons have been learned," said Lionel Delatour, who heads a group of pro-democracy businessmen, "a recognition that radical extreme positions have not paid, a sense of maturity." Although only 25 businessmen attended the service, there were indications that the monied community was also maturing in its outlook. By the reckoning of some business leaders, 20% of their colleagues are trying to reach out to Aristide in a spirit of reconciliation, including one or two of the seven...