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While Republicans have generally been quieter in their efforts, they are primed for putting the voter rolls under a microscope. In Ohio, Republican Congressman Pat Tiberi complains that four counties have voter rolls with more names than there are voting-age residents in the county, according to the last Census. In one Ohio neighborhood, Mary Poppins, George Foreman and Michael Jordan all signed up to vote. The man who submitted their forms was allegedly paid for his efforts with crack cocaine from a woman volunteering for the N.A.A.C.P. National Voter Fund in Toledo...
...memory of so many bad buildings has made a lot of Parisians almost pathologically opposed to more. "The very idea of building in Paris is seen as wrong and condemnable," sighs Paris architect Bernard Reichen. After the Tour Montparnasse went up, mayor Jacques Chirac and his conservative successor Jean Tiberi figured they had rightly read the public will by keeping a strict limit on building heights. As Blet and other opponents of towers point out, the height restrictions haven't cut Paris off entirely from architectural innovation: consider Jean Nouvel's glass-walled Institut du Monde Arabe (1988) along...
...news for Chirac was the loss of Paris, which he ruled as mayor from 1977 until his presidential victory in 1995. Funding scandals going 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...
...Hoping to marginalize Tiberi, the Gaullists gave their official nod to Séguin. A formidable orator and political heavyweight, he had high popularity ratings and experience as a former minister and mayor of the eastern city of Epinal. "Séguin seemed like a sure thing," sighs a rpr official. "But his candidacy never caught fire...
...guin faced multiple problems: Tiberi's "dissident" candidacy, public lassitude after nearly a quarter-century of Gaullist rule, voter disgust over allegations of corruption going back to Chirac's days as mayor and, not least, the charge that Séguin was a parachuté-a carpetbagger brought in from the outside. To make matters worse, he has run a lackluster race marked by baffling tactical shifts. By contrast, Delanoë's low-key campaign, boosted by the national popularity of the Socialist-led government, has the wind at its back...