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...space with the French public for his other - potentially more controversial - reforms. Despite initial grumbling from unions, he introduced closer monitoring of dole recipients to identify possible cheats, and rationalized the state employment agency to offer more positions to job seekers faster. Last summer he even piloted a work contract, designed to encourage small companies to take on staff by allowing them to fire new workers within two years without risking legal reprisals or severance costs. That's remarkably similar to the law Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin championed to stimulate youth employment by making young workers easier to dismiss...
Little, Brown signed Viswanathan to a two-book, $500,000 contract while she was in high school. This is the first book that the Harvard sophomore has produced for the publisher under that deal, and it reached 32nd on the New York Times' hardcover fiction bestseller list this week...
...every Division I athletic conference but the Ivy League, high school senior athletes sign what amounts to a written contract, known as the NCAA letter of intent, to attend a college or university and receive an athletic scholarship. On signing day, which falls on the first Wednesday in February, the recruiting process ends...
...throwing three novels or four hundred pages of critical theory at a group of busy undergrads is not the answer. I probably don’t need to read Derrida’s take on Foucault’s take on Habermas’ interpretation of the Social Contract. Professors should distill—what a beautiful ideal!—and having distilled, recommend additional reading for those interested. Some professors argue that the problem is inherently disciplinary: some disciplines are, by necessity, more page-heavy than others. There is certainly some truth to that contention, but it hides...
...Kaavya Viswanathan’s ’08 recently procured $500,000 two-book deal and forthcoming DreamWorks contract seem to have qualified. Almost as soon as her success became public knowledge, Viswanathan became the target of an inspired private butchering...