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Chirac is Mightier than Le Pen

Monday, May 6, 2002

• TITLE: "Chirac is Mightier than Le Pen" A pun on "The pen is mightier than the sword." Not a great pun, I grant you, but a pun nonetheless.

• "... intelligentsia ..." From the Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary:

  Main Entry: in.tel.li.gent.sia
  Pronunciation: in-"te-l&-'jen(t)-sE-&, -'gen(t)-
  Function: noun
  Etymology:Russian intelligentsiya, from Latin intelligentia intelligence
  Date: 1907
  1: intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite

• "... Herald Tribune ..." Here's the link to the front page of the International Herald Tribune's coverage of the French election
  
  
                 World War I Poster

  
  

•     Mullings' Catchy Caption of the Day:
  

  
  President Bush and former Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken
  officially open the "Tee Ball on the South Lawn" season
  which was postponed after the September 11 attacks
  last year.

  (AP Photo/Kenneth Lambert) ____________________________________________________________________________________