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Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, is the front-runner to take the helm at the International Monetary Fund. She consolidated her lead over the weekend with Egyptian and Indonesian backing. (Associated Press)
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Brazilian Economy Minister Guido Mantega welcomes French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, the front-runner for chief of the International Monetary Fund. Brazil is one of several countries that wants the IMF search to go outside of Europe. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** Georges Tron, France's junior minister for civil service, waves to the media as he arrives for the weekly Cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris in March 2010. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
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US President Barack Obama, right, shares a word with IMF Acting Managing Director John Lipsky, center, and British Prime Minister David Cameron during departures after a G8 summit in Deauville, France, Friday, May 27, 2011.
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President Obama (right) speaks with Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf during a group photo at the G8 summit in Deauville, France, on May 27, 2011. (Associated Press/dapd/Peer Grimm)
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** FILE ** This photo provided Tuesday May 3, 2011, by France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA, shows a sealed flight data recorder from the 2009 Air France flight that went down in the mid-Atlantic. (AP Photo/BEA, Johann PESCHEL)
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy (right) and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (center), welcome President Obama to Le Ciro's Restaurant during a dinner meeting for the G8 summit in Deauville, France, on May 26, 2011. (Associated Press)
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President Obama meets with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Obama meets with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the G-8 summit in Deauville, France, on Thursday, May 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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Charlie Davies had a bitter parting with France's FC Sochaux after his accident. (Associated Press)
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French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde announces her bid to lead the International Monetary Fund at a news conference in Paris on Wednesday, May 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)
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Jessica Chastain promotes Terrence Malick's "The Tree of Life" at the 64th international film festival in Cannes, southern France, earlier this month. "I'm just nervous that I'm going to be the newcomer that everyone's sick of, and they don't even know my name." she said. (Associated Press)
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Associated Press Lance Armstrong, shown in Brisbane, Australia, won the Tour de France seven times, including every year from 1999 to 2005.
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** FILE ** In this April 4, 2011, file photo, actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, poses after receiving the insignia of Chevalier in the Order of the Legion of Honor during the MIPTV (International Television Programme Market) in Cannes, southern France. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau, File)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong has denied ever taking performance-enhancing drugs and has never failed a drug test.
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France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde has, in recent days, been touted in many European capitals as a good choice to replace former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (Associated Press)
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Danish director Lars von Trier poses on May 18, 2011, during a photo call for his film "Melancholia" at the 64th Cannes Film Festival in southern France. (Associated Press)
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Director Lars Von Trier poses May 18, 2011, for portraits after an interview with the Associated Press promoting the film Melancholia at the 64th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France. (Associated Press)
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** FILE ** French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, are seen on May 13, 2011, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (Associated Press)
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One of the two flight recorders from Air France Flight 447, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, is shown in Le Bourget, France, near Paris, on Thursday, May 12, 2011. French investigators said Monday they have recovered all the flight data and cockpit voice recordings from the recorders, which were located by underwater robots and hoisted up from a depth of 13,200 feet under the sea. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
