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...Bayrou has a potent vote utile argument of his own: Polls regularly show that he would have a better chance than Royal would have of beating Sarkozy in the head-to-head second round on May 6. His appeal has prompted several former Socialist ministers to break rank and urge their party to promise to govern in coalition with the centrists, prompting outrage from party leaders. But if Royal does make it into the second round, their tune could quickly change...
...four innings and allowed just three hits to improve to 3-3 on the season. DiBernardi allowed just one hit in three innings of relief to pick up her first save of the season.Yale’s pitchers were strong throughout the weekend, not surprising considering the Bulldogs rank second in the Ivy League in team ERA with a 2.39 mark.Harvard threatened in the fifth when it loaded the bases against DiBernardi with just one out. But the reliever got junior first baseman Danielle Kerper to strike out and senior right fielder Susie Winkeller to fly out to center...
...Wolfowitz's admission comes after two years at the Bank - two somewhat rocky years. His top-level appointments underwhelmed the Bank's rank and file; a number of longtime Bank veterans fled the institution in horror that the administration's ranking neoconservative was in charge. The effect is cumulative: the Bank's Staff Association is calling for his resignation - and his admission came on the eve of the bank's annual spring meeting in Washington this weekend...
...Vonnegut's sincerity, his willingness to scoff at received wisdom, is such that reading his work for the first time gives one the sense that everything else is rank hypocrisy. His opinion of human nature was low, and that low opinion applied to his heroes and his villains alike - he was endlessly disappointed in humanity and in himself, and he expressed that disappointment in a mixture of tar-black humor and deep despair. He could easily have become a crank, but he was too smart; he could have become a cynic, but there was something tender in his nature that...
...Britain in which those captured at sea would have just given name, rank and number; would only have been men; would have done no more in captivity than suck on a pipe while dressed in a peacoat; would have just muttered, "Hello sir, glad to be back," when released, was not in most ways a better place than the insanely meritocratic, undeferential, deinstitutionalized Britain that Thatcher and Princess Diana unleashed. Every so often, however, Britons should be allowed to look back at that older nation - and mourn its passing...