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...some people now seem to think 'Arab,' 'immigrant' and 'delinquent' all mean the same thing?" The question is anything but rhetorical in Beaucaire, with its many immigrant and ethnic Arab residents, surging concerns over crime and recent embrace of the xenophobic National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Like the Gard department of which it is a part, Beaucaire belongs to a group of French constituencies where support for extreme-right candidates during general elections this month may determine the shape of the next national government. Polls indicate that first-round voting on June 9 will qualify National Front candidates...
Ever since my first Harvard spring, when I was still a bashful, beardless freshman, I’ve cultivated a passionate dislike for the maudlin, overwrought essays that senior Crimson columnists tend to pen as graduation nears...
...told Republican Senators he would welcome a chance to wield his veto power. The chance may come soon, on a $27 billion emergency bill for the war on terrorism. If Congress loads it up with additional spending, as expected, conservatives are counting on Bush to finally put down the pen and say no. --By Karen Tumulty
...murder of populist politician Pim Fortuyn drove thousands of dazed citizens into the streets in shock, anger and a cataclysmic sense of loss that went beyond one life to encompass the nation itself. A man who just weeks earlier was hotly disputing comparisons with French nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen seemed in death to have bizarrely taken on the luster of his avowed idol, John F. Kennedy. His new window on a harder-edged Dutch future, disturbing to some and promising to others, slammed shut before it ever really opened...
Interestingly, this xenophobic bias is not isolated to Le Pen and his horde, as even Chirac has derisively complained about Paris’ African and Arab immigrants. As the Mayor of Paris, he reportedly grumbled about “the overdose of immigrants,” especially their “noise and smell.” During his tenure as mayor, Chirac continued the unspoken practice of relegating poor whites and immigrants to the suburbs that border the city. Thus, Chirac’s recent landslide victory over Le Pen comes as little hope for ameliorating the very factors...