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Although Le Pen was surely helped by his opponents’ shortcomings, his success was also symptomatic of the growing support for far-right parties which has developed over the past few years in Western Europe. Jorg Haider was the first hardliner to succeed at the polls, winning his Freedom Party a place in a center-right coalition government after his strong showing in the 2000 Austrian elections. Haider’s controversial policies—revolving largely around implacable opposition to further Turkish immigration and the potential repatriation of immigrants already within Austria—have served...
...themselves among young people for reasons that are partly sexual probably do so with no conscious predatory intention. They may hope to gain some pleasure from mere propinquity, and also from helping young people in wholly admirable ways. Some are fooling themselves, with disastrous consequences. But many undoubtedly succeed in their lifetime project of service and self-denial, doing much good and no harm. They are surely more heroes than predators...
...tolerate the inevitability of certain tendencies that have occasional antisocial consequences. The military services would have a harder time filling their recruiting quotas if they were successful in screening out everyone with an unhealthy enthusiasm for violence. Instead they work to control and channel those impulses, and they largely succeed...
...liner Paul Wolfowitz to rally pro-Israel supporters on the Mall in Washington. When Powell's nine-day mission was a fizzle, the hard-liners climbed back into the front seat. When Cheney was host at a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu - the former Israeli Prime Minister who hopes to succeed Sharon by outflanking him on the right - on the same day that Powell was in Jerusalem trying to get Sharon to knuckle under, the Secretary's team could barely control its fury...
Glickman will succeed David H. Pryor, who is set to step down from the IOP’s helm in June after a two-year term...