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...commentator Nicolas Baverez, whose best-selling book France Is Falling has turned national decline into the No. 1 topic among the commentariat. Baverez says the shocking results of the first round of presidential elections in April 2002 - when French voters put far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen into a runoff with Chirac - amounted to "a national cry of distress." The massive mandate for Chirac in the second round, bolstered by parliamentary elections in June 2002 that gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can This Man Tame France? | 10/5/2003 | See Source »

...based, a process that offered some sharp insights into my intellectual shortcomings but revealed absolutely nothing about Coetzee himself. All my questions were similarly treated, and I wound up sounding like a reporter for a fanzine. "What kind of music do you like?" I asked, desperately. The pen scratched, the great writer cogitated. "Music I have never heard before," he said. And this is about as colorful an anecdote as you'll ever hear about John Maxwell Coetzee. He is intensely private (some say cripplingly shy) and deeply (some say coldly) intellectual, but above all, he is a grand master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Veiled Genius | 10/5/2003 | See Source »

Derek Lowe, Boston’s Game 3 starter, dominated Oakland with a 1.64 ERA in two starts this year. True, watching Boston’s bullpen is not for the faint of heart. But remember, the Sox have won 95 games with that pen this year, so it can’t be that...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: LOVE IT OR LEEVE IT: Red Sox lineup will be a nightmare for A’s pitchers | 10/2/2003 | See Source »

...been called the Great Communicator was often shy with others, yet it's true. As I grew older and went away to school, I knew the thick letters from my father were outpourings from his heart and head, and could only have happened when he picked up his fountain pen and began writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Our Family Therapy | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...GREAT PEN PAL He was known for his oratorical skills, but where Ronald Reagan really revealed himself was in the letters he wrote. A look at some telling excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Table of Contents: Sep. 29, 2003 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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