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...school - is always bad enough, but many of the Parisians setting off on that initial commute Monday looked oddly ashen under their tans as they cursed autumn weather that has plagued the capital all summer. "This had to be the crappiest summer in the history of weather," spat Lionel Martin, a 33 year old salesman taking the last drag of a cigarette before darting into the Metro to escape the chilly drizzle. "Look at this - more clouds, more damp, more cold, just like it's been since June. Talk about an été pourri...
...slightly out of step with the sober, every-vote-must-count mood of the moment. In this election, even the 18-to-24-year-old age group moved decisively away from fringe parties and protest votes in favor of mainstream candidates. In 2002 the conservative Jacques Chirac and Socialist Lionel Jospin secured only 22% of the young vote; this time, three-quarters of young voters went to Royal, Sarkozy or Bayrou. Paule Drubigny, 26, a Paris music student, says she didn't vote in 2002, but this year felt compelled to vote against Sarkozy, whom she considers "incapable of promoting...
...punctuated only by the hiss of thousands drawing a breath in anticipation. But the screaming outside the French Socialist Party headquarters on the Rue Solferino weren't the expressions of horror and despair heard five years earlier, when the right-wing Jean-Marie Le Pen beat then Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin into the runoff against President Jacques Chirac. This time, the Socialist faithful were yelling out of joy and relief that it was their candidate, Segolene Royal, who would be facing off against conservative rival Nicolas Sarkozy in the May 6 runoff...
...haunted by the trauma of 2002, who would most like to tattoo that phrase onto the conscience of left-wing voters. In the first that year, enough voters backed far-left and ecologist candidates on the assumption that they would have a second-round opportunity to ensure that Socialist Lionel Jospin beat out incumbent President Jacques Chirac, to cost the Socialists a place in the second round: Instead, Chirac faced the far-right National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen in the run-off, putting many voters for whom Jospin had not been sufficiently left-wing into the incongruous position...
...almost meant nothing at all. Since the love we distill for each beloved conforms to such a specific, rarefied recipe ... you really needed as many different words for the feeling as there were people whom you cared for in your life.' --PAGE 240 OF the post- birthday world BY LIONEL SHRIVER...