Word: beaumont
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...these voters proved most susceptible to the BNP's promises of better representation for "the invisible majority" of white citizens and a stop to immigration and asylum. Similar conditions and promises boosted the Front National's first-round tally in last month's municipal elections in Hénin-Beaumont, a down-at-heel town in northwestern France and former Socialist Party stronghold. (Read: "Labour Pains: Gordon Brown is Running Out of Time...
Localism matters, as Hénin-Beaumont illustrates. Just three weeks after the European elections, the former mining town, a traditional fiefdom of the French left, bucked the national trend to give the FN a convincing lead in the first round of municipal elections. The party was boosted by the presence on the trail of Marine Le Pen, the 40-year-old daughter of FN leader Jean-Marie and widely tipped as his successor. This thoroughly modern incarnation of the far right supports equal rights for women, is pro-choice on abortion, and talks of creating a "French Islam...
...Texas A Pay-Per-View Internet? Time Warner Cable is testing a program to meter Internet use in the city of Beaumont, in which users subscribe to monthly contracts similar to those for cell phones, but with gigabytes measured instead of minutes. Rivals AT&T and Comcast have similar plans. Critics say the policy will hurt content providers, especially high-bandwidth-video sites...
...Well, South Pacific is finally back on Broadway, at Lincoln Center?s Vivian Beaumont theater in a new production directed by Bartlett Sher. The happy news is that its brilliance hasn?t faded. Indeed, the long absence may have made its many virtues shine brighter. With apologies to the Carousel and Oklahoma boosters (and the one or two who would throw in a vote for The King and I), I just might nominate South Pacific as the best of all the Rodgers and Hammerstein shows. At the very least, it?s the one for adults...
...heat against Obama in Texas, and hanging onto only a slender lead in Ohio. Her own husband had conceded a day earlier that both states are crucial to her survival. "You probably like it that it has come down to Texas," Bill Clinton said while campaigning for her in Beaumont, Tex. "If she wins Texas and Ohio, I think she will be the nominee. If you don't deliver for her then I don't think...