Word: galit
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...slapped down greedy bankers, fumed at U.S. and British resistance to French plans for strict new regulations of the global finance sector, and preached the gospel of "moralizing capitalism"? Is he the man, a son of a Hungarian immigrant, who, newly elected, challenged French pretense of color-blind égalité by arguing for American-style affirmative action? Or is he the leader who, facing critical regional elections next March, has begun openly courting voters of the extreme-right National Front with a crackdown on illegal aliens and a divisive national debate on immigration and French identity? (See pictures...
Sarkozy also suggested that Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi's multiple elections wins is proof of his greatness. "What is important in democracy is to be re-elected," Libération cited Sarkozy as saying, a phrase unlikely to join "fraternité, égalité et liberté" as a description of French democratic ideals...
...many in France, such proposals raise the dark specter of an "élitist" and "undemocratic" system in which higher education will be reserved for the rich (as they inaccurately assume it is in America). But however much of an affront this may seem to the French ideal of égalité, a bit of inequality in pursuit of a decent system of higher education may be no vice. There is a point at which too much democracy, like too much pastis before dinner, can lead to a kind of facile and simplistic drunkenness. For, though money may well...
...down at one of the tables and munched away on our borekas. Galit asked about my ethnicity and then told me stories of Indian men she encountered in her youth in London. “When I straighten my hair, everyone thinks I am Indian. They all thought that I was an Indian girl.” I laughed and wondered whether the reverse would work, if I could pass off as a Sephardic...
While alternating slices of borekas with sweet pastries and chatting away with Galit, it is easy to lose track of time. As it is, time seems to move more slowly in Brookline, where the neighborhood is quiet and people stroll casually through the streets as though minutes are not pressing behind them. Popping final hamantaschens into our mouths, we left Pastry Land...