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A protester wears a mask caricaturing Sarkozy, as he holds a flare during a demonstration against French President Nicolas Sarkozy's reforms, Paris, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007. Strikers crippled the country's public transport system Thursday in anger over President Nicolas Sarkozy's push to reform France's pension system, the first major showdown between the country's new leader and its powerful unions. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)