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...past two weeks. At issue this time, though, are not the heady concerns of '68: the Vietnam War, or the ideas of socialism and free love. The 2006 rallying point is a new law, backed by Villepin, to reduce France's chronic and debilitating youth unemployment, which has rarely fallen below 20% since 1983 and currently stands at 22% - and at more than 40% in the poorer neighbor-hoods that exploded in bitter rioting last fall. His plan: a "first employment contract" that allows employers to fire workers under the age of 26 within two years of their hiring, without...
...certificates to these cadets in recognition of their achievement, he gave a short speech in praise of each of them. He made no reference to gender. During one combat PT session last week, there is a rare reference to gender. Inspired by the motto, “Leave no fallen comrade behind,” the cadets practice carrying each other. In one technique, a cadet is supposed to grab another under the arms and wrap his hands around his chest. “If you are carrying a female, you will obviously not do that,” says...
...more vicious war has so far failed to prod the country's leaders into setting aside their rivalries and forming a broadly representative government, which may be the U.S.'s best hope for subduing the insurgency. The task of bringing together Iraqis torn by bloodshed and ill will has fallen to Khalilzad, the gregarious, glad-handing Afghan-born diplomat, who says he enjoys "getting my hands dirty in the grubby aspects of politics and policymaking." But the dilemma for Khalilzad is the one facing the Bush Administration as it tries to find an honorable way out of Iraq: Once...
...afternoon in Amherst, Mass. Last spring’s squad won just one game outside of Jordan Field, but the team sees this loss as hardly a pattern, given last weekend’s victory over Stony Brook in New York and the fact that the Minutemen had not fallen at home since March 2004. “It’s a tough place to win on the road,” captain Jake Samuelson said. “I wouldn’t say this game is a sign we’re in huge trouble...
...semester. “I was like, ‘Hi. This is what I do. This is what I want to do. This is gonna be the most relevant class in my entire time at Harvard to take,’” says Oliver of his fallen hopes.The course received 72 applications this spring, but less than half of them were admitted. Even at that number, Mullins was forced to create two sections of about 15 students each.Oliver had to find academic inspiration elsewhere. For his current screenplay, a tale about an aimless undergraduate who wins...