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...have a sneaking suspicion that, when I'm old and gray, I'm going to look back on these summers and think about exotic locales and prestigious positions. I bet I'll wonder what would have happened if I'd taken a different job offer or traveled to the farthest reaches of the globe instead of staying close to home. And then I'll settle back into my comfortable chair, glance out the window at the sunset, and heave a contented sigh of relief...
Attitudes are also changing in a fashion that embraces the New Economy. Two famed French characteristics--an innate suspicion of wealth and a fear of risk--are fast breaking down as a younger generation taps into the Internet revolution. "Ten years ago," says Minc, "only 1 out of 200 graduates of France's elite universities said he wanted to be an entrepreneur. Today it's more than half." Indeed, the rise of the young, well-educated, global-minded generation is one of the most important forces driving the French renaissance in almost every area...
...times it's disconcerting--to feel unfamiliar in your own skin, to wake up, as I have, ensnared in a cultural Venus fly trap slowly eating away at your former self. And more unsettling than a vindaloo--fiery hot with cinnamon, cardamom, cumin and peppercorns--is the suspicion that, innocent and unaware, I was anesthetized by an urban predator, and now must lay paralyzed as the city alters my very being...
...course, in hyper-liberal circles diamonds have been viewed with suspicion for years, a sentiment fed in equal parts by disgust for the infamous DeBeers cartel and a growing sense that perhaps wearing a measure of one's fianc?'s net worth on one's hand might not be the most practical use of two months' salary...
...about The Patriot? Well it certainly suffers from irony deficiency. It is four-square for democracy and decency, and this, of course, will cause a certain amount of superciliousness among the postmodernist swells. Since it is a story about the American Revolution, it will suffer from the age-old suspicion of movies in which guys wear knee britches and write with quill pens. But if the mass audience can get behind Gladiator, why shouldn't it take a flier on more recent history? You telling us Russell Crowe is cuter than Mel Gibson? Or in his picture suffers more than...