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...opportunity to send a message to their parties in the way that primary voters do in U.S. elections. At least half of the candidates were to the left of Jospin and the Socialists, and although Jospin only got 16 percent of the vote (compared with 17 percent for Le Pen and 20 percent for Chirac), the combined vote for Jospin and those to the left of him was around 42 percent. The combined vote for Chirac and those to his right was a slightly lower figure. Right now there are a lot of leftwing voters out there kicking themselves...
Here's why far-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen will advance to the second round of the French presidential election: An unusually high number of voters stayed home, and a lot of dissention among the voters of the left. Nearly 30 percent of the electorate stayed away from Sunday's poll, and their abstention is believed to have hurt Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin more than any of his rivals. A large stay-away also means that the results were skewed to the more ideologically motivated voters, who tend to favor more extreme parties...
...Explanations and excuses aside, there are some very disturbing facts here. More people voted for the extreme rightwing candidates Le Pen and Bruno Megret (who broke away from Le Pen's national front after a personality clash with the leader) than for the sitting president. That can't simply be written off as a protest vote. There's an extreme-right, xenophobic, anti-immigrant sentiment that is no longer shy of expressing itself in mainstream French politics...
...just like them is particularly important for kids in these families. Nicole Smith, 15, found COLAGE's website after her mother Melissa came out as a lesbian four years ago. Now Nicole, who lives in rural Menomonie, Wis., has new friends in her own area and e-mail pen pals across the country. These friends, she says, "helped get me through a hard time...
...gave up on ER post-George Clooney, this book is what you have been craving. Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye, and in this memoir he applies them to the world of the stressed-out, sleep-deprived, terrifyingly fallible trainee surgeon, where life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of five cups of coffee and an educated guess. A surgical resident himself, Gawande turns every case--from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria--into a thriller in miniature, with the author in the role of the oft-stymied...