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...French college students took to the streets Thursday to protest already approved educational reforms, and have pledged to join Nov. 20 strikes by public sector workers angered by plans to eliminate nearly 23,000 state-funded jobs next year. France's transport unions will stage strikes Nov. 14 to resist plans to tighten their retirement schemes - hoping for the same crippling effects of their Oct. 18 walk-outs that brought much of the country to a standstill. With similar disruption expected for much of the remaining year, Sarkozy may soon learn that winning back hearts in America was far easier...
...agreed fellow Socialist Pierre Moscovici. France's media was torn between approbation and concern. Le Figaro's headline Monday hailed "Nicolas Sarkozy's Humanitarian Coup" and nicknamed him "the Jack Bauer of diplomacy," referring to the secret agent star of 24. Le Parisien, however, claimed "Nicolas Sarkozy can't resist the permanent temptation to stage his action as if he's the only person involved". One way or another, as with the fictional television program, the clock was ticking as another day of dramatic developments took place in this confusing case...
...that we can save the world and right every evil whether by the pen or the sword, we set ourselves up for failure, radicalize politics, and, by leaving unrealistic expectations unrealized, engender bitterness and cynicism in politics. Politics is not a simple science. We would do well then to resist those ideologues who promise paradise through policies of greatest simplicity, ease, and comfort.To the student activists: We should help where we can. But your fine-sounding sayings and high-minded petitions only help yourselves.Christopher B. Lacaria ’09 is a history concentrator in Kirkland House. His column appears...
...things went smoothly,” Chopra told the Crimson in 2003. “We’ve been getting a lot of positive feedback. People realize that throwing a party is expensive.” While some students couldn’t resist poking fun at the school for requiring institutional support in having a good time, the grants soon became a staple of student life. In each succeeding year the UC voted to continue the program, making small alterations for better accountability and increasing the value of the grants from $50 to $100. Harvard?...
Raised in competitive Ivy League rowing towns, captain Pat Mulcahy and fellow senior Matt Young were brought up to hate Harvard, their hometown schools’ rival on the water.But in the end, the two lightweight standouts couldn’t resist the call of the Charles.Hailing from Ithaca, N.Y., and Philadelphia, Penn., respectively—the homes of lightweight crew powerhouses Cornell and Penn—Mulcahy and Young have long been exposed to top-notch crews.By living in places where crew was a prominent sport, the two benefited from great coaching and plenty of local competition when they...