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29-year-old Alton Clifford has been charged with stabbing 26-year-old James D. Lawrence of Rapid City. Lawrence remains in critical condition at a local hospital.
• The Pennington County Sheriff's Office and Rapid City police were called to a Rapid City Ranchmart shortly before 7 a.m. Saturday for a report of a stabbing and found Lawrence with multiple stab wounds in a car in the parking lot.
• The Pennington County Sheriff's Office and Rapid City Police Department are continuing to investigate.
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• PARIS (AP) -- When Nicolas Sarkozy bounded up the steps of France's presidential palace in jogging shorts and shoes on his first day in office five years ago, many French instantly sensed they were in for something new.
• In a country where King Louis XIV's phrase "L'Etat, c'est moi" -- "I am the state -- resonated for later heads of state, the message from Sarkozy was clear: Tradition-bound France needed a self-image makeover.
• His idea of change wasn't exactly what many French had in mind.
• Sarkozy's meticulously built political career all but collapsed Sunday, after he lost to Francois Hollande, an unassuming and bespectacled Socialist, in France's presidential run-off. Sarkozy becomes the first French one-term president since Valery

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