Word: egalit
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...more pertinent to the French: if it is broken, why not go ahead and try? The French system of higher education is broken to the core. At the level of higher education at least, it seems to me high time for the old French revolutionary triumvirate of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité to open its doors to a fourth sibling: Modernité. Money may not buy us love, or even happiness, but it can go a long way toward buying things for which we have, as yet, no other currency. A culture that takes pride in its intellectual achievements...
...like the country's 99 other local administrative units. Yet you don't have to spend long in the shadow of Réunion's active volcano to realize that the island is a long way from Lyons. Despite the French Republic's much-vaunted ideals of liberté, egalité, fraternité, Réunion is a place where First World and Third World meet...
...French Foreign Minister says that "France is not America's farmyard" [Jan. 28] but conveniently forgets that his country was a graveyard for Americans who fought for France's freedom. I guess it all depends on whose liberté, egalité and fraternité are on the line...
...Egalité, Fraternité, Liberté! Vive la différence...
...characters range from French-Algerian "Secret Army" Colonel Antoine Argoud to Communist Leader Jacques Duclos, from a patriotic old Lorraine grocer to a Gandhi-quoting Algerian nationalist. The two film makers, who describe themselves as non-Communist leftists, use all these characters to document their thesis: that liberté, egalité, fraternité are more rhetoric than fact...