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I'm hoping that some of you will help me to think about the European context of issues like these.  I'm especially interested in -- though admittedly ignorant of -- how opportunity is grasped (or not) in the current French election.
by kellogg (kellogg[dot]david[at]gmail[dot]com) on Mon Apr 30th, 2007 at 08:29:05 PM EST
I wish I could say there are good examples of seizing time's forelock in the French election debate. We can always hope Ségolène Royal will do so in tomorrow's televised face-to-face.

But this kind of electoral process seems to favour cautious position-taking (at least for the front-runners). Royal did have a promising theme about participative democracy - involving citizens more directly in decisions that concern them - but I don't think she got up steam with it as she might have. The result is that now, in terms of what has played during the campaign, it feels a bit like a discarded gadget.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 08:31:33 AM EST
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I'm taking it there's a typo in your quote from Isocrates:

applying the analogy of an art with art and fast rules to a creative process

"hard" in place of the second "art"?

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 08:37:48 AM EST
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I was copying from a hard copy text.  
by kellogg (kellogg[dot]david[at]gmail[dot]com) on Tue May 1st, 2007 at 10:53:05 AM EST
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