Word: penned
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...difference at all who won the presidency. Where there is not apathy, there is ominous extremism. In the first round of the election held on April 23, nearly 40% of the ballots went to fringe candidates ranging from the Trotskyites to the harshly anti-immigrant Jean-Marie Le Pen, who won 15% of the vote, a record for him. Chirac's task now is to heal the wounds of a bruising campaign, restore public confidence and spark a job-creating burst of economic growth...
...more aloof Balladur and passed him, but in a shocking result, Jospin won the first round of the election. Chirac has never been known for his consistency, and having tacked left to defeat Balladur, he nudged more to the right for the final round to woo the Le Pen voters. He began hammering on issues like law- and-order and the fight against the legacy of socialism. Now Chirac must achieve something in the office he has sought so eagerly for so long. Most important, he must address unemployment. It is a stubborn problem: France has recovered from the global...
During the campaign, Chirac accurately described a "social fracture" in French society. Whether his contradictory program will actually lower unemployment is an open question, but Chirac himself may offer something that will help heal that fracture. Unlike the monarchical Mitterrand or the dry Jospin or the hatemongering Le Pen, he has empathy, gregariousness, heart. One thing the alienated French may require from their politicians right now is "contact"; Chirac is the one to provide it. --With reporting by Bruce Crumley/Paris
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Although we realize that David Lat's April 29th editorial ("Hypocritical Society," Dartboard, Apr. 30) was perhaps just Saturday morning fun, we, writing on behalf of the Hippocratic Society, would like to respond. We agree with his caricature, albeit exaggerated, of the four-color-pen-carrying, grade-grubbing, Cabot-inhabiting pre-med, and we think that this is a perfect reason why we need a Hippocratic Society at Harvard...