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...least within his own family. It took days for his wife, his brother and his two grown children to agree about the funeral arrangements, and there are now reports that they don't talk to each other. There is evidence of a serious split in Milosevic's old Socialist Party, whose leaders overplayed their role by churning out bombastic statements and fighting over the top position in the party, and are now blaming each other for failing to advance their cause through their idol's death. What happened last week was somewhat bizarre and slightly disturbing...
...internships. Yet withdrawing the law is no easy matter: the only legislative course would be a humiliating request to Villepin's own party to approve new legislation trumping a law enacted just weeks ago. Villepin's best political hope, Moïsi suggests, might be for the Socialist opposition to win a court challenge it has filed to overturn the law. But dumping an unpopular policy would leave the larger problem unanswered: How to modernize France? Jobs will not spring magically into being if the hated employment law is abandoned. Eventually, structural reforms will be needed to transform France...
...Villepin managed to create a First Employment Contract, which liberalizes employment for young adults up to 26 years old. The law only affects small companies, but promises a type of contract that can be broken by the employer any time within two years of hiring without an explanation. Unions, socialist representatives, and Sorbonne students alike immediately cried bloody murder, claiming that they deserved the same opportunities and work protections their parents enjoyed. But as baby boomers on both sides of the Atlantic begin to go on welfare and as birth rates continue to fall and life expectancy to rise...
...country whose combination of capitalist economy and communist government has been a delicate balancing act, Hu's harkening back to socialist values could backfire, giving new life to a long-hibernating political faction. For years, as previous rulers Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin championed the market economy, a core of old-guard leftists in the Communist Party seethed. As long as China's economy grew and citizens traded in bicycles for fancy cars, though, they couldn't complain too loudly...
...Such critiques might not matter if Hu & Co. really were turning back the clock to 1950. But Maoist China is hardly what the current leaders are striving to replicate. "The new leadership is keen to promote this socialist banner because it recalls an era when there was no challenge to the Communist Party," says Joseph Cheng, a China-watcher at City University in Hong Kong. "With unrest rising all over China, they want a justification for their monopoly on political power...