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...plane en route to a labor-union congress in Bordeaux, Jean-Louis Borloo leans out of his seat and jabs a finger at a cluster of suburban housing projects below. "The very design of neighborhoods like that was meant to create zones that no one exits and no one enters," barks Borloo, who as France's Employment and Social Cohesion Minister has made revamping the country's blighted banlieues a personal crusade. Borloo insists that demolishing the "invisible but impenetrable walls" separating project residents from suitable housing, functioning public services and jobs is the only way for France to avert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building Hope In the Banlieues | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

From his birthplace in Calvinist Geneva, Jean-Jacques Rousseau migrated toward the hub of Enlightenment-era intellectual activity in Paris. Now, in a new biography, Bernbaum Professor of Literature Leo Damrosch returns Rousseau to center stage, where he belongs. Like a swift alpine stream, Damrosch’s writing is as enchanting as it is effortless. The biography is not only a pleasant read, but a welcome addition to bookshelves. Damrosch likes to note that this is the first single-volume Rousseau biography to be written in English. In an interview with The Crimson, Damrosch characterizes the only other...

Author: By Joseph T. Scarry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Damrosch Taps Rousseau's Genius | 11/20/2005 | See Source »

...running mate who was a current council member. Riley served on the council last year, but said she chose not to run for reelection this semester because of disillusionment with the council, which she said was disconnected from students. In the wake of this sudden cancellation of a Wyclef Jean concert funded by the UC, both sets of candidates seem likely to cite their experience on the council as evidence they will manage to avoid such debacles. Only Voith has served on the council since his freshman year, while Gadgil, Haddock, and Riley all joined as sophomores. Voith served...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In UC Race, 2 Tickets Emerge | 11/18/2005 | See Source »

Despite widespread student frustration at the last-minute cancellation of the Wyclef Jean concert earlier this month, only two members of the general student body attended an open meeting to discuss the cancellation...

Author: By Alexander D. Blankfein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Few Attend UC Town Hall on Wyclef | 11/17/2005 | See Source »

...tied the bill’s flaws to what it called a similar failure to poll students that forced the council to cancel this month’s planned Wyclef Jean concert...

Author: By Claire M. Guehenno, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Republicans Criticize UC For Worker Support Bill | 11/16/2005 | See Source »

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