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color="#000080">better late than never?</font></blockquote>
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<div>No. Hysterical despair, tantamount to capitulation to
Chirac.</div>
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<div>Shane Mage<br>
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<div>Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>THOUSANDS MARCH AGAINST LE PEN<br>
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Thousands of people took to the streets of French cities this
morning<br>
after learning that Jean-Marie Le Pen, the National Front
candidate,<br>
had qualified for the second-round runoff in the presidential<br>
elections.<br>
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Waving banners reading "I am ashamed" and "Right and
left, united<br>
against Le Pen", the protesters gathered in Paris,
Marseilles,<br>
Nantes, Toulouse, Montpellier and other French cities. Most were<br>
peaceful, but a breakaway group smashed windows on a Left Bank
avenue<br>
and others threw barricades at the Place de la Concorde.<br>
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Jacques Chirac, who polled almost 20% of the vote, urged the French
to<br>
unite to defeat the far right on May 5.<br>
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* Protests after French election shock<br>
<a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,688756,00.html"
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,688756,00.html</a><br>
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* In pictures: the vote and the reaction<br>
<a
href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,688735,00.html"
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/gall/0,8542,688735,00.html</a></blockquote>
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