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France Asks for a Raise Forget the 35-hour week. French workers have reverted to a more traditional demand: higher pay. The wage issue shot to the top of the political agenda this month, driven by public-sector workers who staged mass demonstrations. Last week, the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin promised a 1% raise for the public sector, on top of the 1% already awarded for this year. Private-sector employers are furious, saying the hike will set a national precedent when they can ill afford it. "If we increase pay without increasing productivity, we'll be destroying competitiveness...
...Leonard Cohen song that has always stayed with me. It kept me going in a bleak moment in my life, when I thought, as we all sometimes do, that I couldn't see how good could come out of the dreck I had turned my life into. "Forget your perfect offering," Cohen advises. "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Happy Easter...
...Haul, for example. Or, that time you rushed the field after the Crimson won and pretended to urinate on the Yale insignia. Or that time you rushed the field after the Crimson won and actually did urinate on the Yale insignia. And, of course, let’s not forget that time you were detained in a New Haven jail for public urination...
...unconvincing portrait of Shlomo makes the character come across as being closer to mid-life than middle school. When Auslander describes Heimish’s master groping the “pendulous breasts” of the “grossly overweight” Mrs. Malinowitz, he seems to forget that the lecherous Shlomo is—at least ostensibly—still only 10 years...
More important, though, is that throughout the Oasis troika of Definitely Maybe, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, and Be Here Now, it is impossibly easy to forget that you’re listening to something planned and executed, rather than something organic...