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...prison population has rocketed from 30,000 to 41,000, overcrowding the country's jails. "The Socialists are putting people in jail, but they gave an impression of laxity," says Michel Crozier, a sociologist at Paris' prestigious Institut d'Etudes Politiques. Undismayed, Badinter goes on promoting reforms. The latest: a proposal to give detained offenders new rights that lawyers are already calling "French-style habeas corpus...
...activity that leads to unpleasant investigation, and sometimes to forced relocation, is unauthorized contact with foreigners. Uniformed policemen armed with pistols stand guard over Peking's residential compounds for foreigners to keep unapproved Chinese visitors out. Observes Michel Oksenberg of the University of Michigan: "The previous totalitarian system under the domination of a single dictator is yielding to an authoritarian system with a collective leadership at the top. The instruments of totalitarian control have yet to be dismantled...
...Michel Serebecbere, maître d' of the Maurice Restaurant in New York City's posh Parker Meridien Hotel, last year noticed that business people were desperate for anything to take notes on during breakfast and luncheon meetings. They resorted to envelopes, blank checks or even $20 bills. Now executives find something more convenient. Sitting on the tables next to the salt and pepper is a small (2½ in. by 4¼ in.) gray-beige note pad with the legend, "Notes While Dining at the Maurice...
...three men approached a police checkpoint at the village of Lotsum, along the tense cease-fire line between India and Pakistan in the Himalayas. The travelers looked like ordinary Kashmiri peasants, and the guards let them pass. But one of them was not what he seemed. French Anthropologist Michel Peissel had disguised himself in garb like that of his two local guides, staining his face with walnut dye in order to enter a region long forbidden to foreigners: the Dansar Plain of "Little Tibet," the no man's land of a legendary tribe known as the Minaro...
...domestic world was the accepted, indeed expected, environment for women. Madeline and Lena function almost as a unit in helping each other to explore the world outside. Kury highlights the strength of the women's friendship by subtly contrasting it to the friendship that develops between Costa and Michel. While Michel and Costa vie for the attention of each others' wives on a joint family outing, Michel tells Madeline. "You only look at Lena, never at me." And while each husband tries to trick the other into phony business deals, Lena and Madeline remain loyal friends. Kury, however, does...