--- joanna bujes <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> wrote:
> See what I mean about this guy? He's so bloody
> cheerful! Anyway, especially
> interesting is the reaction of the Russian
> politicians.
>
> Thanks to Brad Mayer who forwarded this to me.
>
> Joanna
>
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>
> A French Lesson
>
> by Boris Kagarlitsky
> April 30, 2002
>
> VISIONSTRATEGY WATCH
>
> No-one was particularly excited about the
> presidential elections in France. The
> differences between the leading candidates were so
> minuscule that the
> victory of one or
> the other could have significance only for the
> candidate himself and for
> people who were
> hoping to be appointed to the administration. Then
> when France finally went
> to the polls,
> the entire European public shuddered on discovering
> that second place had
> not been won by
> the Socialist Lionel Jospin, who had been planned
> for this role, but by the
> leader of the
> ultra-right, Jean-Marie Le Pen.
Difference between parties is so miniscule and that's why Le Pen did so well? Hell, how come this "boredom" doesn't help the third party candidates here in the US?
===== Kevin Dean Buffalo, NY ICQ: 8616001 AIM: KDean75206 Buffalo Activist Network http://www.buffaloactivist.net http://www.yaysoft.com
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