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...going to blow up." this prophecy, which often comes up in French conversations, suggests that we understand our own history. Indeed, in France - where the word consensus is not exactly common usage, and the word reformist is considered an insult - confrontation always seems inevitable. Whether the First Employment Contract (cpe), the measure intended to encourage job creation by allowing employers to more easily dismiss the young staffers they take on, is good or bad is beside the point. It took an unusual degree of blindness for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to think that the French, who said...
...probably won't be allowed to test-drive a sample property before joining, so ask for references. Check with your friends; maybe one has a membership and would let you stay as a guest. Have your attorney review the contract as a final stamp of approval...
...triple-sec alternative to Mel Brooks' very wet humor, Peter Greenaway is the commercial cinema's pre-eminent avant-gardist. Back before he made The Draughtsman's Contract and 8 1/2 Women, he made meticulously malevolent short films (seven are collected here) and The Falls, a three-hour fake-umentary about 92 people whose lives were altered by a Violent Unknown Event. The textual and textural density is intoxicating, the English wit so dry you could choke on it. A sturdy challenge for movie lovers--and unmissable...
...Democrats offer a clear set of alternative policies. Democratic activists and fund raisers are putting pressure on their leaders to come up with a program to tout as an option different from the Republican agenda, the way Gingrich and G.O.P. candidates did in 1994 with their 10-point Contract with America. Few voters were aware of the particulars of the Contract, but it helped give coherence and a positive tilt to the party message. Emanuel points out that the Republicans did not unveil their 1994 Contract until September of that year and says the Democrats are leery of doing anything...
...Gingrich's Contract was a voter-friendly manifesto that tied together Republican advantages on themes as disparate as congressional ethics and tax policy into a manifesto for an electoral landslide. The Democrats may envy the former House Speaker's success in creating a winning narrative, given the large advantage they enjoy on issues such as rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, protecting Americans' rights, standing up to special interests and corruption, managing government spending and tax policy. Still, the Republicans retain an 11-point edge over the Democrats on the question of dealing with terrorism, while voters are evenly split...