Greece's ruling coalition suffered steep losses, while parties on the far left and far right made significant gains amid anger over austerity measures.
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But the bigger point we discussed is that it's almost impossible to talk about race in America without being attacked by people on both the far left and far right.
Neither the far left or far right has the answers to our current problems.
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Greece has seen the sharp rise of parties of the far left and far right.
As they attack the EU and the euro, the far left and the far right are gaining supporters they never previously could have hoped for.
Mr Mitchell is due to meet Mr Netanyahu, who leads a right-leaning coalition combining the centre-right, centre-left and far-right parties.
Although Judith Martin, the doyen of etiquette, recommends using cutlery beginning on the far left or right and progressing toward the middle.
Parties from the far left and right are seeing their support increase.
Voting intentions for far-left candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen both gained two percentage points to 17% and 15%, respectively.
That aside, in a Greek poll this morning, the leaders of the far left ( SYRIZA) and the far right (LAOS) were the most popular politicians, each with 38%.
Some of the more thoughtful proposals -- as opposed to those that fit neatly on cocktail napkins -- are uniting the far right and the far left in opposition.
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That ranges far left as Democrat Dennis Kucinich, and as far right as this conservative Republican.
But Monti is viewed with suspicion Bersani's far-left partners, Left Ecology Freedom, who believe the technocrat would pull a left government too far to the economic right.
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Mr Bennett's growing number of supporters however see him as a plain-talking realist - a dichotomy which shows how far apart the left and right in Israel still are.
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He picked up voters not only from the far-right, but from the far-left too: in contrast to 2002, none of the eight other candidates scored 5%.
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The battle promises to be as fierce between the right and the far right, as between the traditional right and left.
But by steering his party very far to the left or the right Mr Spidla would risk splitting it, perhaps fatally.
This could be good news for those who have felt that elected representatives have been too far to the left or the right, which has often resulted in political polarization and paralysis.
Furthermore, results of the Dutch elections was another good sign because it gave an unexpected vote of confidence in the euro, with voters rejecting eurosceptic candidates on the far right and far left.
Not very often do you see anyone of the far right and the far left believing the same thing.
But Carol, Helen, Louise and the rest of the weather team do tend to mention specific places rather than relying on left and right and, so far as I know, the word 'pants' has yet to feature in a BBC weather forecast!
You see as much enthusiasm for homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal remedies and other forms of folk medicine on the far right as on the far left, and for the same fundamental reason: distrust of expertise, of the scientific method, and of the good intentions of the authorities.
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To be fair, the dynamic of the smartphone market is far more nuanced than a simple left vs. right approach.
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The race is between Councilman Greg Nickels and city attorney Mark Sidran, both Democrats, though Sidran has been blasted in some quarters as leaning too far to the right for many in this left-leaning city.
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In the 2002 presidential election, even without a split in the party, the left paid a heavy price for its fragmentation: the far-right Jean-Marie Le Pen evicted Mr Jospin in the first round.
Templeton was Hearts' inspiration again minutes later when he latched on to Marius Zaliukas's pass and squared for Skacel, who sent a composed left-foot shot into the far corner of the net from the right-hand side of the box.
Munroe was troubled in the sixth with Nishioka's right jab, left hook combination finding the target far too often, while the champion also started to work the body of the Leicester fighter.
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It is for this reason that, while the Greek CP wants out of the euro, the growingly influential far left parliamentary group SYRIZA does not, and neither does the hard-right religious party LAOS. Everybody can see that an external devaluation will be chaotic, painful and cause its own kind of social unrest, just as the attempted internal devaluation is doing.
As with the Recovery Act, the left thought it changed too little and the right that it reached too far.
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