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These are troubling times in France, and there may be worse to come. With Chirac promising two years of belt tightening in order to shrink the government's huge deficits, the country faces the grim prospect of continued high unemployment and a paroxysm of social unrest that some fear could match the upheaval of May 1968. Chirac is betting that a dose of fiscal discipline will be rewarded by the return of strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce...
...society should never try to interfere when there is no conflict of rights--only that it should be extremely wary of such interference. Alan Dershowitz gives two cases when such laws are just: when the law is a small burden and would save many lives (such as mandatory seat belt laws) or when the law interferes with someone who may be under a temporary loss of control (such as stopping someone from jumping off the top of their building). A ban on divorce passes neither of these tests. As a society, we should be very cautious about enacting laws which...
...death camps by fleeing into the forest, where he hid for a year in a 4-ft.-deep hole. Even as a successful candy wholesaler in the U.S., he felt hunted and angry, especially at the "Nice Irvings," his term for America's assimilated Jews who laughed at Borscht Belt humor and turned, as he said, "an identity we'd been martyred for into vaudeville...
...crowds at Harvard are good ones when the team is playing well," senior goals; Tripp Tracy said. "We're still coming off a season where we didn't give them much to cheer about. If we can get some wins under our belt at home, then hopefully the fans will respond and hop on that bandwagon...
With a fall's worth of experience under it's belt, the Crimson will certainly be looking for even sunnier days on the greens and fairways come April...