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In episode 6 of _Noir_ , when Mireille is identifying Yuri Nazarov to Kirika,
a shot where his photograph is clipped to some papers with English text
appears. Two different pages are shown.

[![Nazarov's photograph, over other
pages](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2bset.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/2bset.jpg)

The text in the papers contains references to 1990's American politics, with
the mention of Gore, the Democrats, and Congress. Does the text come from any
real-life publication from the period? Also, do the two different pages belong
to different pieces of writing, or to the same one?


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Do the pages to which Yuri Nazarov's photograph is clipped come from real publications?


I ran two different internet searches for text that I could identify from the
two different pages. Both searches led me to the 2000 article from TIME, ["May
It Please The
Court"](http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2047560,00.html).

The text copied in left page in the _Noir_ shot begins at:

> The embarrassing admission didn't change Hengartner's overall point that
> there were serious problems with punch-card voting, but it may have damaged
> his credibility with Sauls.

The text shown follows that of the magazine article through the next
paragraph.

The text on the right page begins at:

> […] remain skittish and ready to bolt - and if they abandon Gore this week,
> he will almost surely have to concede.

But note that in an actual magazine article, this division of the pages would
not make sense, as this would duplicate text that is already on the left page
(e.g. _ready to bolt_ ). The most likely interpretation is that the "page" was
duplicated, and the text used in a _Lorem ipsum_ -like manner.

Something similar happens in ep. 10, where a prosecutor is shown with [a
volume](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1sR2D.jpg) that presumably contains case
details, in French. The two open pages contain identical text. The French does
not make sense as a whole, but an internet search with the bits that do make
sense leads to [this _Le Monde diplomatique_
article](https://www.tni.org/en/archives/act/447) from 2001. Evidently, some
words have been cut out; I do not know why. The beginning of the text of same
article is also shown later on [the front page of
Libération](https://i.stack.imgur.com/w8vVy.jpg).


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