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...strong throw from Stoeckel comes in just late as DiCesare legs it out avoid making the final out of the inning. - Passed ball puts DiCesare in scoring position and puts a little more pressure on Hofeld. - Intentionally walking Tamsin again. Let's see if Walsh is right twice. - Woah. Lyon hits a ball JUST foul down the third base line which would have scored the winning run. - Game over, Stoeckel almost saved the run by keeping the ball in the infield, but DiCesare came home and gave the Huskies the win. Tough break for Harvard...
...Royal for the party's leadership later this year. Socialist-led tickets captured France's third-largest city, Toulouse, after 37 years of conservative domination. They also claimed Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne, Blois, Caen, Reims, Metz and Rouen from the right. Leftists were meanwhile returned to power in Lyon, Lille, Rennes, and Montpellier, taking 49.5% of the nation's popular vote versus 47.5% for the right. Sarkozy's governing conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) averted near total collapse by narrowly hanging on to Marseille, and standing firm in bastions like Nice, Orleans, Le Havre, and Bordeaux...
...Still, local realities allowed Socialist-led majorities to capture city halls in first-round polling in France's third-largest city Lyon, as well as in Nantes, Rouen and Dijon. The left also posted dominant leads in Paris, Lille and Strasbourg, and was in tight races going into run-offs even in such traditional conservative bastions as Marseille and Toulouse. In many close runoff races next weekend, Socialist candidates appear more likely to gain the support of the centrist Modem party, which had once been a coalition partner of Sarkozy's UMP - although the centrists may demand a prohibitive price...
...same time, other countries' thinking could use an update. Britain, Germany and the U.S. in particular are so focused on their own enormous cultural output that they tend to ignore France. Says Guy Walter, director of the Villa Gillet cultural center in Lyon: "When I point out a great new French novel to a New York publisher, I am told it's 'too Frenchy.' But Americans don't read French, so they don't really know...
...Arts Experience at the landmark Raffles Hotel (Jan. 30-Feb. 3). Among those on hand will be Thomas Keller from the French Laundry in Napa Valley, California; Alain Passard from L'Arpège in Paris; Santi Santamaria from Can Fabes in Catalonia and Nicolas Le Bec from Lyon. Wineries from world-renowned regions including Chateau Haut-Brion from Bordeaux and Frescobaldi from Tuscany will host tastings, and German painter Hella Nohl will discuss red wine's place in her palette. www.rhwfae.com...