But according to Pascal's wager, a director-general who keeps faith in the round has little to lose.
But because of their philosophical training in the rigours of Pascal's method, the Bayesian bolt-on does not come easily to scientists.
His successor, France's Pascal Lamy, lacks Sir Leon's liberal instincts.
First, Gilberto made amends for his mistake against PSV in midweek by finding Green's left-hand corner after Lennon dummied Pascal Chimbonda's pass.
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Liebenberg scored the first try of the match, bursting onto Pascal Pape's cleverly delayed pass to slice his way through from 25 yards out.
The Frenchman was quick to react to Pascal Chimbonda's knock-back and he crashed a superb volley against the post with Antti Niemi beaten, Keane tapping in the rebound.
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The clown prince of goalkeepers and a personal friend of Cantona's, Pascal Olmeta, turned in another eccentric performance to match that of last season's testimonial in Munich.
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Fighting between supporters of Congo-Brazzaville 's President Pascal Lissouba and his predecessor, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, broke out again in the capital.
Froch, who was making the first defence of the title he won against Canada's Jean Pascal last December, is now unbeaten in 25 fights.
And he feels, having watched how Pascal exposed Froch's lack of defence, that he will have too much speed and too much ring-craft for the Brit.
"It's OK to have a system that works, " explained Toyota's technical director Pascal Vasselon.
Magistrate Jean-Michel Gentil, who leads the inquiry, unexpectedly summoned Mr Sarkozy for a face-to-face encounter with Mrs Bettencourt's butler, Pascal Bonnefoy, in the city of Bordeaux.
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But Pascal Grierson, the station's chief executive, ask Brits to put their stereotypes to one side.
Pascal Soriot, the firm's chief executive officer, said Cambridge was picked because of its scientific workforce and institutions.
The lock's Achilles problem means Pascal Pape comes into the second row with Jerome Thion now on the bench.
He could attract the followers of his fallen allies: Hutus from Rwanda, the late Mobutu Sese Seko's presidential guard from Congo, exiled supporters of Congo-Brazzaville's ex-President Pascal Lissouba.
Which should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with game theory, a tool used to analyse the cold war's arms race and a favourite, perhaps not coincidentally, of Europe's trade commissioner, Pascal Lamy.
The WTO's director-general, Pascal Lamy, also detects longer-run strategic decisions to distort markets in order to promote national industries.
"Now Pascal has the Ring Magazine title he's the man I want to beat, " said Cleverly, who faces Karo Murat next.
Pascal Bates, from the HSE, said the hospital's procedures on legionella fell "markedly short".
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Pascal Lamy, EU Commissioner for Trade met the BBC's Tim Sebastian.
He repeated this point in his confirmation hearings and plans to work with Pascal Lamy, a long-time friend and Europe's trade commissioner, to build momentum for the new round of multilateral trade talks.
Mr Barrow's familiarity with the material allows him to glide from Pascal to Pasadena in smooth, informative paragraphs.
Froch defeated Canadian Jean Pascal on points in a bruising and thrilling encounter at Nottingham's Trent FM Arena in what was considered at the time a British boxing classic.
Researchers are now studying whether gut neurons, which can be sampled through a routine colonoscopy, may help clinicians diagnose and track the disease without invasive brain biopsies, says Pascal Derkinderen, a professor of neurology at Inserm, France's national institute of health.
The Reds wanted a penalty when Benayoun was felled in the box by Pascal Chimbonda, but referee Alan Wiley had already blown for Nyron Nosworthy's trip on Gerrard outside the box and the captain's free-kick flew straight into the wall.
France may offer Pascal Lamy, chief of staff to Jacques Delors when Mr Delors was the commission's president.
Miller is QPR's third signing of the January transfer window, following the arrivals of Wayne Routledge and Pascal Chimbonda.
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