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...Juan Carlos on the throne. Today, Spanish law allows sex changes - and some of the country's 17 autonomous regions perform them on the public health service - but little Leonor won't require the surgeon's knife to become Queen after her Dad. Just the lawyer's pen. The Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards would welcome a Queen. But what if, one fine...
...they seemed powerless to impose order on the streets. Above all, the rage expressed by alienated youths dealt a crushing blow to France's self-image as a model of tolerance and social equality. "It's like a forest that's dried out," says Malik Boutih, the Socialist Party national secretary on social issues. "Things heat up, a wind starts blowing, and all it takes is a spark for the whole thing...
...Germany or Mussolini’s Italy.” Yesterday’s protests were part of a larger national campaign with planned walkouts at 133 high schools and colleges in 53 cities. Sponsors of the walkout included the Harvard Initiative for Peace and Justice and Harvard Socialist Alternative...
...fair, Harvard is not alone in picking on dissident professors. Yale recently terminated renowned Professor of Anthropology David Graeber solely for his anarchist beliefs, while many other schools have let go of faculty for socialist, atheist, pro-Palestinian, or purportedly “anti-American” views. One can disagree strongly with all of these views and still recognize a professor’s right to hold them. This is what civil liberties were made...
...France's tough-talking Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, blamed the trouble on "riffraff" and years of neglect of the problem by Socialist governments. For many, though, he was throwing salt into an open wound. The families of the electrocuted youths refused Sarkozy's offer to meet with them, and his hard-nosed approach drew criticism even from within his government. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, a probable rival to Sarkozy in the race to represent France's conservatives in the 2007 presidential election, arranged a meeting with the families, and calls for calm were resonating from all sides...