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...60th anniversary and the academy is determined that the evening's only bubbles will come from the champagne. For the first time, the red carpet will be partially covered and will lead not to a movie theater or hotel, where the baftas used to be held, but to the Royal Opera House. On Feb. 11, people will watch an awards ceremony that really does look and act a lot like the Oscars. "The red carpet is huge and the stage will be much more dramatic," says Amanda Berry, bafta...
...hardly Royal's first ham-handed approach to foreign policy, which is any French president's principal brief. Last month, she sat idly by in Lebanon when the Israeli government was compared to Nazis, then seemed to express approval for the security wall Israel is building in the West Bank. She has stuck to her internationally unique position that Iran should be denied access even to civilian nuclear power, and even praised the "swiftness" of Chinese justice on a visit this month to China. Diplomacy, then, is not her forte...
...When TIME asked Royal in the summer of 2006 what she thought of Hillary Clinton, she said she'd like to meet her, even though "she holds some very right-wing positions." And what France could learn from the United States? There was a long pause before she answered: "A spirit of enterprise, perhaps...
...Royal's backers point out that French voters couldn't care less about foreign policy, and that her opponents are blowing her remarks out of proportion. True enough. But her missteps are also amplified because she is leaving the substance of her campaign unstated. "We're getting the picture, but not the sound," says Thierry Saussez, a prominent right-wing political image consultant. She is sticking to her plan to stay quiet on specific policies until February 11, once she's done more "listening" to French voters. Sarkozy is more than happy to take up the oxygen until then...
...race is still tight: 52% of voters now say they would prefer Sarkozy to 48% for Royal in a head-to-head contest. But Socialists are more concerned by polls suggesting that their candidate's often random comments are undermining that ineffable quality of being "presidentiable," or enrobed with sufficient natural authority and gravitas for the top job. Her Socialist brethren used a version of that argument, often with a sexist undertone, to try to disqualify Royal last year, and it didn't work. But in France's relatively short campaign, mistakes are cumulative. Royal has inspired enthusiasm...