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...same time that patriotic sentiments swept across the nation, a countermovement of peace activists slowly took shape on campus with several student organizations...
...surging concerns over crime and recent embrace of the xenophobic National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Like the Gard department of which it is a part, Beaucaire belongs to a group of French constituencies where support for extreme-right candidates during general elections this month may determine the shape of the next national government. Polls indicate that first-round voting on June 9 will qualify National Front candidates for the June 16 run-offs in over 200 of France's 577 legislative races - way up from the 1997 level of 75. Such triangulaire battles will pit the National Front...
Plans for a more permanent memorial are beginning to take shape, and as in New York City, passions are running high. Seven landowners share the 400-acre site, which was long ago strip-mined for coal. In March a bill was introduced in Congress to designate it a national memorial, which would bring a much needed infusion of funds to the community. A formal planning committee will be named in the next few months. The announcement can't come soon enough for the locals, who find the whole process maddeningly bureaucratic. Meanwhile, a garishness is sweeping into town. Flight...
...here's how Wednesday night's matches shape...
...feature a supporting cast of stepparents, half-siblings, Dad's new girlfriend and her kids, the bride's first stepfather and his new wife, and sometimes even the bride and groom's ex-spouses. The old rules of wedding etiquette don't stretch far enough to cover the shape of these families. A new crop of creative solutions can help...