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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Socialists, haunted by the trauma of 2002, who would most like to tattoo that phrase onto the conscience of left-wing voters. In the first that year, enough voters backed far-left and ecologist candidates on the assumption that they would have a second-round opportunity to ensure that Socialist Lionel Jospin beat out incumbent President Jacques Chirac, to cost the Socialists a place in the second round: Instead, Chirac faced the far-right National Front's Jean-Marie Le Pen in the run-off, putting many voters for whom Jospin had not been sufficiently left-wing into the incongruous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France's Je Ne Sais Quoi Elections | 4/21/2007 | See Source »

...proposal? Allow any kid--of any age--who can "pass one or more relevant competency tests" not only to do constructive things like sign contracts and vote but also to do essentially anything he or she wants: have sex with people of any age, drink, smoke, drive, get a tattoo. "If they can pass an appropriate test of maturity," Epstein writes in a passage that left me a bit queasy, "young people of any age should have access to pornographic materials commensurate with adult access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parents: Relax | 3/30/2007 | See Source »

Your girlfriend can leave you, LFO may not rock forever, and your own mother might disown you. However, you can bet that an institution that has already survived for over 360 years will probably stick around for a while—and so will that Harvard tattoo you’re considering plastering on your ass. For Joseph K. Cooper ’07, the Veritas shield that adorns his shoulder blade is more than just a way to show off in the locker room and at the beach. “I view tattoos as a way to commemorate...

Author: By Daniel B. Adler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: School Spirit: Just About Skin Deep | 2/28/2007 | See Source »

...past week, though, the men have been unnerved by absence of the sounds of war. "It's been quiet - really, really, quiet," said Sgt. Sergej Michaud, 24. Michaud has cropped his dark hair nearly to the scalp, and he has a tattoo of a helmeted skull on his left forearm with TANKER printed below. Like many other soldiers at the COP he relishes the chance to drive towards gunfire and separate the combatants in Iraq's sectarian war. That was routine for his platoon until a few days ago, when the violence suddenly dropped almost to nothing. One soldier said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Quiet in Baghdad. Too Quiet | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

...then why get all hung up on perceptions? (He wore it.) And he brings out a list of talking points - all typed out - that he is going to tell me about the number 23, in which he's been interested for years (his daughter has a '23' tattoo), whether I want to hear them or not. "Blood takes 23 seconds to circulate the body... Jim Carrey plus Virginia Madsen is 23 letters... Jim Carrey plus Joel Schumacher is 23 letters... I was born at 2:30 a.m..." I shall spare you the rest. Especially since I'm not sure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Jim Carrey Flipped Out? | 2/14/2007 | See Source »

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