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...election as an independent after the rpr excommunicated him last October. As Chirac tried to distance himself from his troublesome successor, Tiberi often hinted that he would reveal details of financial hanky-panky during Chirac's tenure as mayor. "Tiberi portrays himself as a victim," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center of French Political Life, "but he is the one who is making the right lose Paris. He incarnates the worst of the municipal system-corruption, influence-peddling, mediocrity and nepotism...
...Political analysts caution against assuming that local leftist gains will automatically translate into a Jospin victory in 2002. "If Paris and Lyons go left, people will talk only of that," says Perrineau. "But beware of that interpretation: Paris and Lyons are not France, and Jacques Chirac is far from dead." One possible result of a rightist debacle could be to jolt the divided conservative parties to unite behind Chirac next year. "Today," says Perrineau, "the only man who can bridge the divisions on the right is Chirac. He has the capacity to emerge as the great unifier...
...economics professor who has promised to change much of the President's economic policy. Chirac, 64, is an instinctive political operator who is determined to trim France's huge welfare state. But they are likely to try to get along. "Neither man seeks a fight," says political analyst Pascal Perrineau. "Chirac doesn't have the means. He's a naked king...
...spite of the massive disruptions and frayed nerves, public opinion appears to favor the strikers. But most analysts agree that Chirac has little choice but to stay the course. "If the government backs off this time, it is finished," says Pascal Perrineau, director of the Center for the Study of French Political Life. "There is no way it could last to the next general elections or avoid a very serious political crisis...
...maligned cop (Michael Ness), is a repressed homosexual who finally realizes his true nature in the quake's aftermath, shouldn't that make him a Good Guy? Is David (Jesse Means II), the priapic minister, really a symbol of black male virility or a sexual predator? Is Dewain (Harold Perrineau Jr.), the gang leader who is arrested for stealing two bottles of beer, an avatar of resistance or merely a common thief...