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...further left than most Democrats in America) and the more traditional social welfare agenda of Royal. Although “Sarko” has led every poll in recent months, he has ceded four percentage points in the last week to Royal, who is ruthlessly exploiting anxiety about economic reform and Sarkozy’s personality, riding a “Tout Sauf Sarkozy” (“Anything But Sarko”) movement that may carry...
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given young employees slightly less job security, widespread student street demonstrations caused the reform bill to be withdrawn.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...
...what does Royal propose? Beyond vague promises of gradual reform of the welfare system, she talks of government-guaranteed starter jobs, proposes to increase the minimum monthly salary by 20 percent to 1500 euros, and insists she will leave the controversial 35-hour week untouched. These proposals are fiscally irresponsible and are not calculated to increase private employment or the integration of minorities into the workforce. Royal is much more popular in the banlieues than the law-and-order immigration skeptic, Sarkozy, who has an unfortunate—and perhaps calculated—weakness for rhetoric with a racist edge...
Within the past month, now that the review of undergraduate education is nearing an end (and with the other curricular reviews pending in 2004 having been concluded), the question of calendar reform has emerged once again. The deans have discussed the issue and concluded unanimously, as they did three years ago, that the Verba committee's proposal to achieve greater uniformity of academic calendars across Harvard would advance the interests of the University as a whole. The Harvard Overseers have expressed a similar view. More recently still, the Undergraduate Council has issued a report on the subject and conducted...
...that several sources have expressed themselves on the subject of calendar reform, it seems only appropriate and fair to offer all interested parties an opportunity to be heard so that we may have a full range of arguments and views. Accordingly, I am soliciting the opinions of all members of the Harvard community, since all will be affected in one way or another by a resolution of the issues. Please send me your thoughts on the subject by the end of this month, either by e-mail to calendarreform@harvard.edu or by writing to me, care of Massachusetts Hall ("Attention: Calendar...