Sollers has his arms crossed, the left arm resting on the surface of the table, the right arm resting on the left (and his right hand indolently cupping the elbow of his left arm).
All of which means that Mr Jospin is suddenly under pressure to defend his plan against accusations, from most of the right and some of the left, that it is not just soft on terrorists but is also unleashing a separatist spirit which, by encouraging the Basques, the Bretons, the Alsatians and others, risks dismembering the republic.
But the underlying reason is that Mr Jospin and French voters, of both right and left, have an instinctive mistrust of globalisation.
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Even at the awkward angle from which we view the picture, we read it from left to right, as we do the sequence of the three paintings, but we also read from right to left, from the source of illumination above to its objects below.
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Dr. Waltz decided to put an implant in just the right side of my chest -- the right brain controls the left side of the body.
But Mr Davis will find it hard to emulate Tony Blair's policy of robbing the right of its ideas and the left of its influence.
It swarmed with lounging waiters, officious policemen, dog-walkers pulled to right and left of the path, old ladies knitting.
He did not care whether his name was on the right or left of the poster, and bigger or smaller than Steve McQueen's.
Many will seize on the opportunity to decide once and for all whether their future is to the right or left of New Labour, with it or against it.
The people that count this time are not the 269 million Americans or even the 435 House members, but only the 30 or so moderate Republicans, all on the political version of the endangered-species list, who come from places where most people cling religiously to the radical middle and fear the intensity of right and left.
It is not just a debate between the stalwarts of the right and the rebels of the left.
There are members of the right and the left fighting on each side of this thing, and going for an even more divisive tone at this point is just baffling and unnecessary.
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It was Mr Chirac, for instance, who called the snap general election two years ago that returned the Socialists to power, ushering in the current cohabitation between a president of the right and a government of the left.
They now find themselves, largely by accident since both had been written off as party leaders, at the head of their respective right-wing and left-of-centre groupings.
The commission of "wise men" included members of the largest parties on the left and right of Italian politics.
But since I pronate, if I was not in neutralizing boots, I would already have artificially more pressure on the left edge of the outside (right) ski and not enough on the left edge of the inside ski.
At Twinsburg, he is playing different words, or parts of words, into the left and right ears of his twinned volunteers.
Gold is property of neither the left nor the right but of the people.
Syracuse rallied from a 10-point deficit in the last five minutes, but Elashier Hall's attempt at a game-tying 3-pointer with three seconds left went off the right side of the rim with three seconds left.
The 2005 NRW election gave rise to the Left, exhibited low voter turnout, and left the traditional catch-all parties straddling right-and-left of center.
We read more news than we ever have, yet newspapers are going out of business right and left.
The split-brain research mentioned by Gazzaniga included showing a subject a different image in each eye, meaning the right and left halves of the brain were presented with different stimuli, with neither being aware of the other.
Viewing all news organizations as inherently biased, a new startup is trying to account for the problem by taking the major news stories of the day and placing links to stories from the right, left and center points of view underneath the headlines.
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In the absence of forthright leadership, on both the right and the left, the job of standing up to extremists appears to have been left to the electorate.
Despite the unassailable math at work, a chorus of voices on both the right and the left are calling for an extension of the tax cuts.
Given that leaders of both mainstream left and right advocate a yes, the potency of the no side seems surprising.
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Be of no illusion, this coalition of Center Left and Center Right will start off in a mood of sweetness and light.
As I think was advertised, I have with me Secretary of Education Arne Duncan on my right, and to my left, Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Rich Cordray.
It could also be that he hopes to use the Attali report, written by a one-time man of the left for a president of the right, to find a new consensus for pressing ahead more forcefully.
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