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Byline: Tracy McNicoll
France's next presidential election isn't until 2012, but Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe is already bidding to be the candidate of change. Delanoe claims in a new book ("Audacity") to be both "socialist and liberal." That can be an oxymoron on the French left, where some use "ultraliberal" as a slur for unbridled capitalism. Delanoe plays up his private-sector credentials as a former consultant and chides Socialists to stop battling "bogeymen" like "flexibility" and "competition."
Not that Delanoe's all for an unchecked economy. He still wants to reverse conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy's tax breaks, and his ...