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Whoever heard of reporters dictating a newspaper's editorial policy? Or holding veto power over the hiring of an editor-in-chief? Or controlling layout? Such radical conditions prevail at Le Figaro, France's leading conservative newspaper. Its 250 reporters, columnists and sub-editors have long enjoyed these prerogatives under a special agreement with the paper's owners. But now, management wants to reassert its right to manage. To show just how they felt about that idea, Figaro's staff last week staged a one-day strike...
...association of professors warned that decentralization of the system and student participation on the councils could lead to anarchy. The costs of creating new universities and implementing new teaching methods worries other groups. A notable critic of the plan is Political Analyst Raymond Aron, who argued in the Figaro that the law could lead to a politicalization of the universities. "This is not renovation," he wrote. "It is ruin...
...engaging conclusion, the author conjures up an evening at the theater to evoke what he likes best about France: the mocking, lighthearted spirit of Beaumarchais' Le Manage de Figaro. It was just such a Figaro-like nation, he says, young and insolent, that was able to teach France's two great traditions to the world: the hierarchic and the libertarian. "We taught kings how to be kings," exults Nourissier, "then taught the people how to rid themselves of kings." In the process, "France perfected a certain kind of man-quick, insolent, fired by his conquests and the vision...
...Weill, Otto fled Hitler's Brownshirts in 1933, set up camp in Zurich where he staged a Richard III that would either "win the Zurich public or send us back to the concentration camps." The play was a success, and Otto went on to stage such hits as Figaro and The Three-Penny Opera...
...royal prince built a marble mausoleum for a pet monkey named McCarthy. Similar distortions of value took place in more important aspects of public life. Diplomacy, once the French national art, so deteriorated that it came to fit the job description given by Beaumarchais, author of The Marriage of Figaro: "Spread spies, pension traitors, loosen seals, intercept letters...