Rudy Giuliani 's sandblasting of graffiti and his crackdown on subway turnstile-jumpers were imitated by Nicolas Sarkozy when he was France 's interior minister -- a main reason that Sarkozy is now the front-runner for the French presidency in 2007 .
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