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...socialist government to power the following year; in the 2000 debacle it was Finance Minister Christian Sautter who lost his job. But here's the twist: years later, both sets of reforms have happened anyway. The national pension system was revamped three years ago. The Finance Ministry, long a bastion of public-sector inefficiency, is today one of the few government departments that is successfully reducing its head count, cutting costs and improving productivity. So, if the truly "normal state of affairs" prevails in France, some watered-down version of Villepin's employment measures may well creep through at some...
...Golden Rule, the workplace would be a much better and safer place to be. Richard Sem President, Sem Security Management Trevor, Wisconsin, U.S. Tethered by Technology One of the participants in your forum on trends of the future, "Around the corner" [March 20], said the shower is the last bastion of contemplative solitude because it's the only place he's not hounded by electronic devices. But he has the power to turn off his BlackBerry, iPod, cell phone and any other electronic leash he wears. These so-called communication devices in many cases alienate users from the people around...
...participants in you Forum on trends of the future, "Around the Corner" [March 20], said the shower is the last bastion of contemplative solitude because it's the only place he's not hounded by electronic devices. But he has the power to turn off his BlackBerry, iPod, cell phone and any other electronic leash he wears. These so-called communication devices in many cases alienate users from the people around them. Electronic communication is not conversation. It lacks the characteristics of human interaction: the physical, mental and emotional sharing of thoughts...
Much to the dismay of the cult of reactionary conservatism on campus, the Undergraduate Council recently came out in support of co-educational housing. On open-lists across the campus— but especially that of The Harvard Salient (that bastion of reason!)—aflame conservatives have predictably christened the move as a step toward eternal damnation. The College, they argue, should not approve such a policy because its ‘sinfulness’, in the words of one e-mail, would compromise the school...
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