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"  S\u00C9GOL\u00C8NE ROYAL, 52, FRANCE  TODAY: Member of Assembl\u00E9e Nationale (the French parliament) TOMORROW: At press time, she was the Socialist Party&amp;#039;s most serious contender in the race for the presidency. BACKSTORY: Born in Senegal, Royal attended Ecole Nationale D&amp;#039;Administration, the training ground for French politicians. &amp;quot;I am the clean break,&amp;quot; she has said in reference to France&amp;#039;s aging political parties, and she&amp;#039;s arguably the most stylish, sophisticated candidate the country has turned out in years. FIGHTIN&amp;#039; WORDS: When she pondered running for office, Royal didn&amp;#039;t take kindly to comments lobbed by male colleagues like,&amp;quot;Who&amp;#039;s going to look after the children?&amp;quot; (She has four with her partner; they never married. Vive la diff\u00E9rence, sister.)  TZIPI LIVNI, 48, ISRAEL  TODAY: Foreign minister and vice\u2013 prime minister in the new Kadima Party, co - created last year with former prime minister Ariel Sharon and other prominent political figures. TOMORROW: She is touted as the next Golda Meir\u2014prime minister of Israel from 1969 to 1974, and the only other woman to have served as foreign minister. BACKSTORY: Raised in a family of hard-core Zionists (her parents both fought for the underground Irgun Zvai Leumi movement), Livni has been publicly firm about her belief in a two-state solution. Though she only decided to enter politics at 37, she&amp;#039;s Israel&amp;#039;s own Sidney Bristow, boasting a four-year stint with the country&amp;#039;s legendary Mossad spy agency.  HAN MYUNG-SOOK, 62, SOUTH KOREA  TODAY: What a difference: During Korea&amp;#039;s military dictatorship in 1979, she was imprisoned and tortured for reading books deemed antigovernment; now she&amp;#039;s prime minister, second in command of the country. TOMORROW: Her nomination to prime minister by the vastly male National Assembly was a blow to patriarchal Korean society. Should she run for president in 2007, it would be against another woman: Park Geun-hye, the former chairwoman of the conservative Grand National Party. BACKSTORY: Holds degrees in French literature and women&amp;#039;s studies; is known as the godmother of women&amp;#039;s rights activism in Korea. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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