"She took me straight out of the class to the headmistress, " he says.

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This is the failure of the French political class over the past 20 years to tell it straight: to explain to the electorate what is at stake, why France needs to adapt, and why change need not bring only discomfort.

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The day that I decided I wanted to live, I went back to school, made straight As, graduated at the top of my class, on the National Honor Society, became the first person in my family on either side, to graduate from college.

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Home skipper Ian Westwood posted a fifth straight single-figure score in first-class cricket when angling a catch to second slip.

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But now she decided to skip her post-class musing-on-the-mats routine, head straight for the Serenity Posse II meeting on Amsterdam.

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Republicans could not, with a straight face, lobby to extend tax breaks at the top while letting tax cuts aimed at the middle class expire.

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