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Last year, when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin proposed a very modest reform to address the 21.5 percent youth unemployment rate that would have given young employees slightly less job security, widespread student street demonstrations caused the reform bill to be withdrawn. The obvious conclusion drawn from this experience by French politicians was that any further moves toward reform would have to be deferred until the Presidential election and perhaps a fresh round of parliamentary elections. (Sarkozy himself, seeing a chance to undermine his rival, Villepin, opposed the reform.) As for the French youth, a recent poll shows that...
...Shanghai's architectural history-an East-West hybrid combining the modest sturdiness of a Chinese trading town with the showier Art Deco ambitions of the foreigners who began descending in the 19th century-is fast disappearing. Helping us remember this remarkable urban legacy before the last of the wrecking crews strikes is Canadian photographer Greg Girard, a longtime resident of China's largest metropolis, whose new book Phantom Shanghai was published last month. Many of the historic buildings that Girard documents-forlorn carcasses cowering below towers of concrete and glass-have already been demolished. Understanding this lends the photos...
Actually, until the last chapter, M.I.T. looked pretty good in the way it handled Jones' career. Even the academic degrees she faked were fairly modest by the standards of America's most prestigious technical university, but M.I.T. didn't care. She began there in a clerical job, rose through the ranks on talent and loyalty and established a national reputation (and even co-wrote a book) deploring the destructive stress of college admissions...
While these goals may seem modest, and somewhat defeatist for a sports team about to enter its biggest meet of the year, they are anything but. Harvard has battled with a lack of numbers all season, constantly failing to fill all of the spots available for its athletes...
...really cute, though a little creepy,” he says. Says Brown of Musico, “He’s one of the best music directors I’ve worked with by far. I trust him implicitly. He is incredibly kind, funny and modest.”Brown also praises Musico’s ability to handle the hectic scheduling of theater. “He’s one of the few people I know who could balance theater with classes like constitutional law,” she says.After graduation, Musico is slated to attend...