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...first employment contract, an attempt to encourage the hiring of youth under 26 by reducing their employment protection, has been the law of the land. But if there is such a thing as a Pyrrhic compromise, President Jacques Chirac and the millions who have taken to the streets to protest the law have found it. The French President has asked employers not to apply the law in its current form, and the changes it will undergo are unlikely to make it better at creating jobs for the one-quarter of French youth who don't have them. But what about...
Except, of course, that these resolutions have only symbolic power--and real policy change still has to come from state and federal governments. "Referendums are the protest vehicle for the new century," says Elizabeth Garrett, director of U.S.C.'s Initiative and Referendum Institute. "People are dissatisfied with federal leadership, and voting is the best way they know to voice it." Lawmakers rarely take heed of such ballot measures, but maybe they should. The initiatives bring voters to the polls--turnout in Baraboo, Wis., tripled this election cycle. "More votes," says Garrett, "is a message politicians on every level understand...
...unilateral moves. But withdrawing from the West Bank, which is home to 230,000 settlers, may prove more wrenching than it was in Gaza. "Sharon never meant to go as far as Olmert is proposing," says Natan Sharansky, a former Cabinet member who left Sharon's government to protest the Gaza pullout. "But this is Olmert's unique chance to prove his leadership...
...revolutionary creativity, the French are at it again. Millions of young people and trade unionists, joined by some underclass opportunists looking for a good night out, have taken to the streets again. To rise up against what? In massive protest against a law that would allow employers to fire an employee less than 26 years old in the first two years of his contract...
...Asking someone involved in homeschooling whether it stunts children's social growth elicits much eye rolling, and a sigh-laden explanation of where you've gone wrong. It's all about false assumptions. You think homeschooled children never meet other kids? They meet them all the time, they protest - at ballet class, at church, on excursions arranged by and for homeschoolers. You think children mingle widely at school? School culture virtually precludes any but the most cursory contacts between children of different ages. You think all children are happy at school? Many spend years feeling anxious and excluded, victims...