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Like falling leaves in the Luxembourg Gardens and chestnut hawkers on the Champs-Elysées, public sector strikes are an almost inevitable feature of autumn in France. But this season there is an extra crispness to the recurring collision of labor entitlement and government reform. Unlike any of his recent predecessors, President Nicolas Sarkozy is willing to bet his entire mandate on victory in this decisive show-down with unions. He may, in fact, have little choice...
Given their ability to change the nature of things, it's fitting that the Campanas' current project is designing sets for Création 2007, the Ballet National de Marseille's version of Ovid's Metamorphoses, premiering in Luxembourg in December. Ancient Rome meets contemporary Brazil? Look out for the Dance of the Vestal Refuse Collectors; it's sure to swing...
...Born in Luxembourg, Steichen emigrated to the U.S. with his parents when he was two. After training in lithography, he began careers in both photography and painting. Though he abandoned painting in the 1920s, he spent his long life making the case for photography as fine art. He also believed that serious photography could be both artistic and commercial, an insistence that led to his falling out with the more high-minded Alfred Stieglitz, his mentor, friend and co-founder of the Photo-Secessionist movement...
...main topic of discussion. Long a complaint aired primarily by the French, American willingness to allow the dollar to slip, which makes U.S. exports cheaper compared to foreign rivals, is now being denounced by a growing number of E.U. officials. Responding to the widening exchange rate gap from Luxembourg on Monday, Jean-Claude Junker - head of the Eurogroup of 13 nations who share the euro as their currency - complained about American indifference to dollar's slide...
...Karan Lodha is a Government concentrator in Lowell House. He actually only knows 51 things about Luxembourg...