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That S?gol?ne Royal has changed France's Socialist Party forever was confirmed Thursday night when she soared to a blowout victory in the party's presidential primary. The question now is whether French voters will give her the chance to do the same thing to their country's presidency...
...From the moment she launched her presidential campaign a year ago, the Socialist old guard has treated Royal's popularity as a sign of Cain. Behind it lurked the image of a siren luring the party faithful from the course of ideological purity and onto the shoals of populism. Adherents of this line - by no means all oldsters; the Young Socialists organization was in the thick of it - tended to ignore the glaringly obvious fact that the purists' favorite son, former Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, got clobbered in the last presidential elections in 2002. The Socialists finished third in that...
Gurney Professor of History Roy P. Mottahedeh ’60 has been appointed director of a new Islamic Studies program at the University, in charge of developing an initiative funded by a $20 million gift from a Saudi royal prince. Mottahedeh wrote in an e-mail that the primary focus of the program will be “the study of the cultures of Muslims in the [past] fifteen hundred years, and across the geographical spread in which such cultures have existed.” According to Mottahedeh, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud?...
...leak was certainly well-timed: On Thursday, 218,771 card-carrying Socialist party members will vote for either Royal, Strauss-Kahn, or former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius to be their party's candidate in the spring elections; if no one gets 50% of the vote, the top two will face off against one another a week later. How many party members are Socialist schoolteachers alienated by Segolene's impolitic remarks? No one knows for sure. What is known is that some 70,000 members have joined up over the course of a year marked by considerable "Segomania." There...
...holding a primary at all, the Socialist party has moved a giant step away from the backroom deals through which candidates have always been selected in France. If it were a vote among party sympathizers, as primaries are in the United States, Royal would roll to victory, pulled by polls suggesting she is the only Socialist who can win in the spring. Instead it is a vote among party members, a tighter circle widely thought to include many more supporters of the old guard - not to mention lots of schoolteachers. The results of the first round are expected early...