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Calls for left-right showdown lift Royal
As France’s presidential candidates finished their last day of campaigning before Sunday’s first-round vote, Socialist contender Ségolène Royal gained a late lift amid calls for voters to avoid the purely right-wing climax of the last elections in 2002
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If it was a debate, this week provided arguments both for and against the resolution that: “Germany’s corporate governance is improving”
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Martyrdom and the madman

If we look at thought processes rather than ideological pretexts, Cho has more in common with other murder-suicides than most people realise, writes Christopher Caldwell.