Word: royale
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...Americans from Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President not on the basis of the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Alan B. Posner, ROYAL OAK, MICH...
...Reims offered little evidence that that will soon change. A quartet of aspirants came to the Congress hoping to dominate. Three of them had only one clear common purpose: to deny victory to the fourth. That would be defeated 2007 presidential candidate Ségolène Royal, who enjoys support from a slim plurality of 30% of PS members. Also arrayed against her is the current first secretary, François Hollande, her now estranged partner and father of her four children. Whatever else motivates their opposition, there is a pervasive sense that Royal, for all her personal charm...
...scene was surreal on Saturday evening, when supporters of the triad of challengers - Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoë, 35-hour work-week architect Martine Aubry, and youthful left-winger Benoît Hamon - waged vocal battle with Royal's backers during her address, which was characteristically thin on concrete policies. Lusty waves of booing as Royal spoke were followed by standing ovations from her supporters; jeers unleashed by her calls for a coalition with centrists were quickly challenged by Royal supporters chanting...
...becomes a tension-filled one. The story unfolds at a carefully unhurried pace: after a disastrous boxing lesson, Billy accidentally finds himself in a girls' ballet class. The teacher recognizes his talent, begins tutoring him in private and persuades him to try out for the Royal Ballet - all of which he must hide from his family and neighbors, who are in any case more consumed by a strike that has grown violent and increasingly doomed...
...Americans from Virginia, home of the capital of the Confederacy, to California voted for a President not on the basis of the color of his skin but on the content of his character. Now we know what King saw from the mountaintop. We have overcome. Alan B. Posner, ROYAL OAK, MICH...