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What qualities for a president?

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Candidacy season for the presidential elections is open. For both left and right parties. For now, we have failed to see emerge the real reasons behind these nominations, but personal ambitions, or so-called edication to the national cause. And for the moment, we are in the midst of a school-boys’ quarrel.

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Human more than Human

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For a very long time, we have known that the day would come when genomics would keep its promises. This required that computer technology advances were able to release the computing power needed to reduce drastically the cost of the genome sequencing…

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The four scales of time

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The terrible charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn are an opportunity to remember that our society has become borderless, and now lives in four simultaneous time scales.

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Welcome to the binational

Society

The debate on the conditions of selection and training of young people in the centers of the French Football Federation is revealing of a French malaise.

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2012: How the Left will lose

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On the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of the first presidential election won by a Socialist in France, followed by the first real political change, Socialist leaders are over the moon, seemingly assured of victory in the forthcoming presidential elections and the legislative election that will follow.

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Figure skating

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The publication of the program of the Socialist Party went almost unnoticed: no discordant voices on the left; and almost no controversy on the right, but some criticisms for the sake of it. Similarly, the program of the National Front has hardly raised any basic reaction; and when the right will publish its proposals, we can expect the same indifference.

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Roots and wings

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What is the use of talking about the « roots » of a country, as does the President of the Republic and all the right-wing, if not to give, implicitly or explicitly, to those who are connected to them the property right on the country, or at least some ownership over others?

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Back to tobacco

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The previous perspective on tobacco has caused so many reactions, that I have found a few reasons to come back to this topic. First, nobody has called into question the frightening statistics that I have pointed out.

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