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...even given Jospin's weakness as a candidate, it was still a shock when he got fewer votes in the first round of the election than Jean-Marie Le Pen, the candidate of the far-right National Front. Le Pen will now meet President Jacques Chirac - a mainstream conservative - in a runoff on May 5. The National Front's success, wrote the editor of Le Monde last week, has "wounded" and "humiliated" France. Le Pen won't become President; Chirac is all but guaranteed to win the runoff in a landslide, as many supporters of the left, holding their noses...
...when much of Europe takes a holiday, and the left takes to the streets. This year's big demonstrations promise to stir up deep ideological passions, about everything from immigration to Third World debt to free speech. In Paris, opponents of surprise presidential runner-up Jean-Marie Le Pen plan to confront the far-right nationalist as he leads his annual march in honor of Joan of Arc. Meanwhile, Londoners are braced for a rematch, complete with footballs, between globalization foes and the police who penned them in at Oxford Circus last year. Well, what about labor...
...vote compared by some in France to an earthquake, Le Pen came in a close second behind French President Jacques Chirac due to a fractured left wing that sucked votes away from the uninspiring Jospin. Chirac is now almost guaranteed to win the run-off, but the whole incident has left the French wondering how they could have let Le Pen become such a force in national politics when it was uncertain a few weeks ago if he could even get the signatures of enough elected officials to qualify for the ballot...
...sake of France, we hope the voters will reject Le Pen by an overwhelming margin and exorcise the anti-Semitism and hatred of immigrants that has returned to haunt the nation. The recent protests against Le Pen in the streets of Paris and other French cities are heartening. We hope those protesters turn out to vote for Chirac and close the door on a politician who disgraces the French ideal of fraternité and seeks to transform one of the most progressive nations in the world into a xenophobic...
...watching” the text updates from the soccer games back in England. Any number of TFs and Crimson proofers still chastise me for using the word “whilst.” I can’t quite bring myself to give up taking notes in fountain pen and I am still tempted to stop and explain the fundamental principles of grammar to anyone who tells me that they’re “doing good...