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...inherently more stressful than being in a library or your own room. Besides, then you don't have to put up with that dork in the row in front of you who keeps sniffling every five seconds, or the premed behind you incessantly clicking her 20-color premed pen...
...lifted the lid off long-suppressed ethnic nationalism, while prompting some people with no tradition of democracy to look for an alternative form of "strong" government. In the West, right-wing movements have inherited some of the generalized protest vote that used to go communist. Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front does well these days in the industrial suburbs of Paris that were long known as the Red Belt...
...been easy for demagogues to blame immigrants who snatch away the jobs of the native-born -- though that happens far more often in right-wing mythology than in reality. The movement toward west European integration has also provoked a nationalist backlash in some countries. France's Le Pen lately has been drawing cheers by sneering at unity-advocating "federasts...
FRANCE. The right-wing National Front, according to a mid-December poll, would win about 15% of the vote if parliamentary elections were held today. That is only slightly above what Le Pen personally polled in the 1988 presidential election. But the mainstream parties have kept him from making further inroads only by echoing some of his hostility to immigrants, especially dark-skinned Muslim Arabs and Africans. Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac has called for a moratorium on allowing immigrants' families to join them and suggested denying welfare payments to residents of non-French ancestry; former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing...
Still, nobody can match Le Pen in playing on the resentment of petits blancs (poor whites) toward the immigrants. Now he is appealing to other kinds of discontent. He is making a strong pitch to farmers worried that European integration will strip away their accustomed subsidies, and is even putting out feelers to ecological and animal-rights activists, who also have been gaining among voters bored with the mainstream parties. It is just conceivable that if the vote in the 1993 legislative elections splinters widely, a coalition strong enough to form a government could be put together only by including...