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...increase in the national debt to €1.1 trillion over the past 25 years. "It signals a big shakeup," says Jean-Raphael Alventosa, a budget expert at the Cour des Comptes, the national accounting office, which will get more clout. Even France's love affair with hugely expensive - but glorious - infrastructure projects is changing: the Millau viaduct, the world's highest road bridge that opened last year, was entirely financed by the private company that built it. In the past, the French state would have automatically footed the bill...
...French are justly proud of their revolutionary tradition. After all, 1789 begat 1848 and 1871 and indeed inspired just about every revolution for a century, up to and including the Russian Revolution of 1917. Say what you will about the outcomes, but the origins were quite glorious: defiant, courageous, bloody, romantic uprisings against all that was fixed and immovable and oppressive: kings, czars, churches, oligarchies, tyrannies of every kind...
...television, it already has. American Idol, beneath the contestants' naked ambition and buckets of flop-sweat, and Simon Snide's eviscerating bitchiness, is reacquainting the country with its glorious musical past. One week, everyone must sing a Cole Porter tune; the next, '50s rock 'n roll is the genre. All right, the performers don't take their vocalizing cues from the swingin' precision of Ella Fitzgerald, the hiccupping innocence and intensity of Buddy Holly. Instead, they sound indentured to the wildly mannerist melodramatics of Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. ("Just sing the damned song," my friend George Grizzard has been...
...novel for instance, Malcolm knew, according to Baker, “that he was surely moving toward his own glorious destiny...
...stripmined by hooligans." The battle over this vast family fortune leads to feuds between siblings, corruption, lawsuits and the ultimate disintegration of the clan. It is Cohen's good fortune to be on the side of the family that was disinherited. Sweet revenge is the energy behind this glorious book. "All they have left me is this story," writes Cohen. "To be disinherited is to be set free...