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DiCara. who said he was pleased with the election’s results, added that he thought the mayor would be able to push through the complacency of union interests—initiating things like mandatory drug and alcohol testing for firefighters—while “look[ing] towards bold initiatives as his legacy...
...Challenges to Faith at Harvard,”a panel discussion moderated by the Harvard Political Union last night, examined the social and intellectual pressures that influence undergraduates’s religious life...
...discussions are to take place during hundreds of locally organized town-hall meetings involving education, union and cultural officials and ordinary people concerned about the state of French identity. Among the questions Besson has suggested for the debates: Should France implement "integration contracts," which would set minimal levels of language and cultural knowledge for citizenship; and should students be required to sing the national anthem "La Marseillaise" at least once a year? (Read "Booing the 'Marseillaise': A French Soccer Scandal...
...single out immigrants and minorities, but rather to safeguard the unique aspects of the French identity that they perceive as being threatened by foreign influences. "Globalization erases a little more of every nation's characteristics every day," says Frédéric Lefebvre, spokesman for Sarkozy's ruling Union for a Popular Majority Party. Given such cultural erosion, Lefebvre called for a defense of our "cultural model and la Douce France" - an allusion to crooner Charles Trenet's famous 1943 song rhapsodizing about the villages, people and traditions of pastoral France. (See pictures of the Nazis in Paris during...
Over the weekend, gunmen murdered a peasant union leader and 14 others in the latest high-profile drug killings. With violence and bloodshed at the doorstep of our border with Mexico, America can no longer ignore the deteriorating circumstances of our neighbor to the south. Now that force has failed, an end to drug prohibition is the obvious next step...