At first glance, Laurent Fabius and Nicolas Sarkozy, two presidential hopefuls for 2007, have little in common. On the left, Mr Fabius is a product of the left-bank intelligentsia and the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, France's civil-service college, who was prime minister in 1984-86. On the right, Mr Sarkozy is no enarque but a lawyer with a terrier-like manner, who has been repeatedly passed over for prime minister. Yet the pair have begun to adopt similar political strategies.
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