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...Radcliffe, Le Guin, then Ursula Kroeber, found a world like Urras--and spent years trying to overcome its teaching...
...Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia, Ursula K. Le Guin '51 describes a man's uneasy journey from his home world of Annares to the nearby Urras. The protagonist travels from an anarchist society where all is shared to a world of sharp class distinction--and finds perfection in neither...
...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's third-largest city for the first...
...difference between the two campaigns is immediately apparent at street level. On an outing in Paris' fashionable first arrondissement last week, Séguin wound up having coffee in a local bistro with fellow rpr candidates. Looking tired and downcast, he fiddled quietly with a silver lighter as his colleagues talked bravely about how "our message is finally getting through." On the same day Delanoë, accompanied by Education Minister Jack Lang and Interior Minister Daniel Vaillant, strolled triumphantly through the poor but bustling 18th arrondissement surrounded by journalists and well-wishers. "Paris needs an alternative," he said...
...fact, both Delanoë and Séguin promise to fight pollution and crime, improve schools and reduce taxes. At a press lunch last week, Séguin acknowledged the similarities but insisted that the real question was which candidate had "the capacity to put his promises into effect." As to his election chances, Séguin admitted he was "not in a comfortable situation" but predicted a "crystallization" of support in the final weeks. "If we don't win," he added with disarming candor, "the media and public opinion will see it as a sign of weakness...