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...reform instead of defecting to friendlier business environments in the U.K. or Eastern Europe. In addition to exempting businesses with 20 employees or fewer from the 35-hour week, France's conservative government is considering measures to lighten corporate taxes and allow companies to hire and fire with greater freedom. It's also examining calls to partially shift financing of some programs - such as health coverage and pensions - from the employer to privatized schemes workers would pay into. All that, Lenoir says, would leave both businesses and employees with more money to use and invest more efficiently, and according...
Faith And Freedom FRANCE After months of angry debate, a special panel last week urged legislation outlawing Muslim head scarves and other "conspicuous" religious symbols or attire from public schools. The study was commissioned last July by President Jacques Chirac after a series of conflicts and expulsions involving young Muslim women wearing head scarves in public schools. A 1905 law banned religious symbols from state schools, but legal rulings since the late 1980s narrowed the interdiction to those constituting "intimidation, provocation, proselytizing or propaganda." The codified secularism proposed by the panel would ban from schools not only head scarves - which...
...Responding to recent suicide-bombing attacks in Turkey, Bush said, "[terrorists] hate freedom. They hate free countries." Are we to believe that people who blow themselves up do so to bring democracy to its knees? Somehow that sounds far-fetched and not unlike the motives attributed to the enemy in Vietnam. Moreover, our response of attacking violence with more violence is as illogical as fighting fire with gasoline. War is like a fire in the human community, fueled by living beings. Let's put the fire out. Dennis Kostecki Holladay...
...protests. This was possible only because British authorities ensured that the demonstrators were kept out of the Bushes' range. And then, having cleverly outfoxed the protesters, the politicians added salt to the wound by extolling the virtues of free protests in democratic nations, pointing out that no such freedom had existed in Iraq. But what is the value of such liberties if protest is to be so cynically robbed of influence by the governments at which it is directed? For democracy to flourish, it is essential that the right to protest peacefully is not downgraded to the right to protest...
...earth. Hundreds of soldiers killed, hundreds more wounded, $4 billion a month spent and billions more to come, a country broken in pieces that we will be helping rebuild for years to come. And so what is the gift this capture has brought? Perhaps a true taste of freedom from fear for 25 million people who could never quite have faith that the tyranny was over while the tyrant was still loose. It was an antidote to the contempt expressed by Arab and European commentators who poked the American tiger: See, you can?t even catch Saddam...