Word: socialists
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...should have seen it coming. a few weeks ago, i asked a French friend why Lionel Jospin, the Socialist candidate for the presidency, had such difficulty connecting with the voters. "They just don't like him," my friend shrugged, as the French do. Worthy and whiny, and with that pursed-lips seriousness that the French think characteristic of Protestants like him, Jospin proved incapable of inspiring his natural constituency...
...sinister demagogue” and wrote of the humiliation that citizens feel at the strong showing of a man who has often been accused of racism. Despite Le Pen’s radical positions, he captured 17 percent of the vote, beating out Socialist Party candidate and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin...
...advance to the second round of the French presidential election: An unusually high number of voters stayed home, and a lot of dissention among the voters of the left. Nearly 30 percent of the electorate stayed away from Sunday's poll, and their abstention is believed to have hurt Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin more than any of his rivals. A large stay-away also means that the results were skewed to the more ideologically motivated voters, who tend to favor more extreme parties...
...returned to power. Crucifix in hand, he gave an impassioned speech promising to tone down his rhetoric and open new lines of communication with all sectors of society. He appeased the national oil company by removing some of his leftist appointees, and he hinted at modifying some of the socialist laws he has enacted...
...characters share a common spirit. JFK, Kit, Falin and the rest feel the same feelings about the same issues. Where is the hardcore right-winger amid the peace societies and socialist social clubs Kit meets? It is easy to highlight essential similarities when there are only surface differences. These are all familiar characters, partly because their types are so worked-over in Hollywood mythologies: the concerned parents, the suicidal adolescent, her mentor the mysterious, wise...