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...with private enterprise in the mind. There was a poll in which the Chinese [came out as] far more in favor of free trade than the French. So here they are, in a socialist type of organization, but they are more business-oriented than several countries in Europe today. And you feel...
With the exception of Moral Reasoning and Science A, I’ve actually lucked out with Cores. I managed to pick classes that exposed me to new facts about French cinema, lactational amenorrhea, or immigration in straightforward terms, without feeling terribly dumbed-down. I don’t feel very well-rounded in different disciplines, but these classes raised questions and proposed solutions that spoke directly to my life: What impact does government policy have on students? How will changing demographic trends affect my own children? Really, my uterus does that...
...document the Vatican will release Thursday, misplaced in its archives until 2001, is reportedly the official transcript of that trial and Clement's 1308 verdict, which found the Templars to be immoral but not heretical. The Pope allegedly intended to reform them. But under continued pressure from his French protector, Clement instead disbanded them in 1312 and gave most of their riches to a rival military order...
...What's fueling the debate over Môquet's letter is precisely what Môquet considered that higher purpose to be. In the view of Sarkozy and his backers, it was overthrowing Nazi domination for the freedom and liberty of the French nation; to others, it was overthrowing the very market system Sarkozy is seeking to bolster as he reforms France's welfare state. The youthful Môquet, many observers note, was a communist committed to revolution; a poem he wrote on the day of his arrest promised to "kill capitalism," and sought to give heart...
...problem Sarkozy faces isn't always opposition to what it is he says he wants to do, but rather doubts about why he's actually trying to do it," comments Dominique Reynié, a French political analyst and teacher at the Foundation of Political Science in Paris. "A lot of people worry about going along with what he's proposing out of fear they'll learn they've been duped once it's too late...