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Late in the evening on Monday, April 23, harrowed by his defeat in the first round of the French presidential elections, the Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin stood before a distraught crowd of supporters. As he had failed to outpoll right-wing extremist Jean-Marie Le Pen for second place and a slot in the runoff against Presidential incumbent Jacques Chirac, Jospin prepared to announce his immediate resignation from French politics, saying that the strong showing of the National Front party had come “like a thunderbolt.” Yet, in many ways, that evening?...
Person of the Week HARD RIGHT He was dismissed as nothing more than a fringe figure, but ultra-conservative French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen showed that his anti-immigrant, anti-E.U. stance has worrying appeal when he earned the right to run off against Jacques Chirac in France's presidential election...
FRANCE Scrambling to Save The Country's Soul After the earthquake, the rescue work. French political leaders rallied behind President Jacques Chirac to crush the far-right National Front's candidate, Jean-Marie Le Pen, in the second round of presidential voting on May 5. While Le Pen - who edged past Socialist Lionel Jospin to face center-right Chirac in the runoff - promised another electoral shock, Chirac refused to debate him. Stating that Le Pen's "intolerance and hatred" made that impossible, Chirac said France's situation was grave, with "its soul, its cohesion, its role in Europe...
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...Those nine-inning games are always going to [require] a combination of pitchers,” Mager said. “And it’s nice to be able to count on your bull pen...