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Death of The Music Industry Foodchain rap (via NTK)
Chris Morris

Rats, Good for Making Ratatouille?

Fears About Microsoft Return, in Mexico. There are alternatives to Microsoft in Education. See Apple for the obvious. See SchoolNet in Thailand for a cheaper solution.

King Sihanouk is online. He recently donated his films to Hollywood. Meanwhile, Cambodian movie industry struggling to revive its golden era

In The Economist, the obvious France's Shame

To be sure, Mr Le Pen scored too well. His National Front won more votes than any other party in no fewer than 35 out of France's 100 departments (see article). But his success owed more to the mainstream candidates' dismal failure and, above all, to the crazy fragmentation of the left—which cast more than a quarter of the entire vote for candidates plainly or arguably to the left of the Socialists' Lionel Jospin—than to a surge of enthusiasm for France's neo-fascist right. The front's popularity has ebbed and flowed for more than a decade. Mr Le Pen won 14% in the presidential race of 1988 and 15% in 1995, with dips and bounces over the years. This time his tally of 4.8m votes was only a shade higher than in 1995. His percentage was bigger, at just under 17%, because the turnout dropped sharply while his own supporters stood firm. Had it not been for the shock of Mr Le Pen depriving voters of any left-wing choice in the run-off on May 5th, last weekend's most striking outcome would have been the disarray of the left and the near-disappearance of the once-powerful Communist Party.

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Can you say it Gladys Gradanis Gladly Grated Great Graded Cheese on a Gritty Guerny ? (Later: see also 1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters )