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Paris debates plans for new subway

PARIS (AP) — For French leaders with famously large egos, they are hard to resist: grand urban projects meant to secure their legacy in the popular imagination.

Napoleon III had Paris torn down and rebuilt along neat boulevards. Late president Francois Mitterrand commissioned, in typical pharaonic fashion, the Louvre's glass pyramid. Now President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to dig 130 kilometers...

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