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...Army, the relentlessly merry 30,000-strong force of traveling England supporters. There's a lot to like about the tourists' session. Despite a long layoff due to injury, Flintoff's bowling looks as lively as ever. Perfectly balanced over his bat, his work devoid of superfluous movement, Andrew Strauss looks impregnable against all comers. A sense of harmony prevails. But Gill sounds so pessimistic about England's chances that you could start to wonder why they don't just pack up for the day and go see a movie. Like many England supporters, he fears an Australian team hell...
...Instead, the membership followed the trend of the party's voters, and then some: Royal's 60.62% share of the vote among the card-carriers bested her recent poll results among the party's voter base by more than five percentage points. Former finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose lieutenants had been peddling the competence-not-populism line, received a humiliating 20.83%, just a nose ahead of former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius's 18.54%. "Now we know that the party membership doesn't deform the will of the party's broader electorate," said party official and National Assembly deputy Bruno...
...gasps and winces of listeners, who were well aware that most of France's 1.3 million public schoolteachers have always counted on the Socialist party to defend the privileges of French public sector employees. A senator close to Royal's most serious rival, former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has admitted he procured a copy of the tape for "political friends," but says he had nothing to do with what happened after that. For all its wonkiness, the tape has been viewed 400,000 times since it appeared on the YouTube-like site dailymotion.fr late last week...
...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...
...Still, the idea seemed to jeopardize the apparently impregnable lead Royal maintains over her Socialist rivals, former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn and former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius. They both gleefully attacked the juries this week in the second of four televised debates scheduled before Socialists select their candidate in mid-November. Strauss-Kahn noted that a just society can't be "built on the general suspicion" invoked by subjecting elected officials to juries. Fabius suggested the idea was "a kind of populism that would end up serving the far right...