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...successor, Jean Tiberi, caused widespread voter disgust over the Gaullist "system." After Chirac replaced Tiberi with Philippe Séguin as the rpr's official candidate, the disavowed mayor decided to run as an independent and split the conservative vote. In Lyons, similar divisions on the right handed a narrow victory to Socialist Gérard Collomb, giving the left control of France's third-largest city for the first time in almost a century...
...PSLM's new strategy] is not going to change things," Grogan says. "They're going to a lot of effort to reopen this whole campaign on the narrow question of a wage standard. The prospects of doing that are remote, no matter how many Corporation members' houses they...
...down so the blood drains out of him the way it ran from the baby pigs they used to slaughter in her village before a funeral feast. He deserves it, really, she says, for his freeloading, for his hanging around, for how he just stands there, spindly legged and narrow chested and pimple faced with his big yearning eyes, begging for another...
...Thais call yaba (mad medicine), and she has become irritable and potentially violent. Jacky's cheeks are sunken, her skin pockmarked and her hair an unruly explosion of varying strands of red and brown. She is tall and skinny, and her arms and legs extend out from her narrow torso with its slightly protuberant belly like the appendages of a spider shortchanged on legs...
...there is campaign finance reform. I don't claim that campaign finance reform is equivalent to Gandhi's quest for Indian independence (although you could argue that it was also in his self-interest), but it is a rare example of politicians who are motivated by something other than narrow and immediate self-interest...