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...back to Chirac's tenure and multiple corruption charges surrounding his hand-picked successor, Jean Tiberi, caused widespread voter disgust over the Gaullist "system." After Chirac replaced Tiberi with Philippe Séguin as the rpr's official candidate, the disavowed mayor decided to run as an independent and split the conservative vote. In Lyons, similar divisions on the right handed a narrow victory to Socialist Gérard Collomb, giving the left control of France's third-largest city for the first time in almost a century...
...running out of rice, and just waiting around for another Kucha to take it on the chin. Keith was spouting, Rodger and Tina were bonding, Nick had a bumpy tongue. And then the reward challenge arrived - which of course involved a sumptuous buffet, somewhere - and the Baramundians needed to split into four guy-girl teams. Just pick 'em out of a hat like good summer campers, right...
Most of the pages are split down the middle. On one side Doom battles Richards in a disjointed, black-and-white battle through the past and future minutes that surround the story of the other team-members, told in color next to it. The stories interconnect when they are both in the same time and the same place. A clock readout that accompanies both story lines allows you to actually follow the whole thing from either point of view...
...That opinion was, by legal standards, a bizarre contradiction. It is almost unheard-of for two decisions - rendered just three months apart and dealing with essentially the same issue - to yield such a surprising split. And the nuances of the schools' policies only made the judges' respective decisions more surprising. Where the undergraduate policy is explicit, the law school guidelines are far more subtle. Both, however, represent an attempt on the part of the University of Michigan to address the complexities of race, academic standards and diversity...
...Nokia will be showing off its Media Terminal, a souped-up set-top box for the living room, which enables full Internet access over TV broadcast networks. Features include a split screen that can show both TV and the Internet, a remote with built-in keyboard, the ability to pause or replay live broadcasts, digital TV that records to a hard disc, video on demand, a file audio player, e-mail, 3D games, digital radio and connections to devices such as printers and cameras. For its part Hitachi will be showing how smart cards can be inserted into...