from SLATE: >The New York Times leads with, the Wall Street Journal tops its world-wide newsbox with, and the Los Angeles Times top nonlocal spot goes to, yesterday's presidential elections in France, where conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Ségolène Royal received the most votes. <
the lack of parallelism is notable here, as in the New York TIMES's lead story. One candidate is described by his ideology, the other by her party affiliation. The formulation in SLATE and the NYT implies that "socialist" is an accurate description of Royal's ideology -- or (less likely) that Sarkoy leads something called the small-c "conservative" party. It should be either "Union for a Popular Movement candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Party candidate Ségolène Royal" or "conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and social-democratic [or leftish] Ségolène Royal." -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
