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Directing national policy until his death in 1642, Richelieu reasserted the authority of his king against both the conservative Catholics who surrounded the queen mother and the Protestant forces that were fiercely defending the privileges granted them by the Edict of Nantes.
The Washington Post goes completely local above the fold, with its top non-local story the Russians' fiercely contested advance into Grozny.
The Republicans' dilemma is that they are, as always, fiercely divided.
And it's a measure of the seriousness with which they're taken that deans and admissions officers compete fiercely to better their schools' rankings from year to year.
In today's Wall Street Journal , Gerald Seib writes the same story about McCain that we've seen for months: He's unpredictable, angers Republicans with his campaign finance and tobacco stands (making him an honorary Democrat with that sort of lunacy), but is fiercely pro-life.