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...union exploded was in 1997, when French civil servants - who are paid 53% more than they would be for doing the same jobs on the mainland - protested plans to end their privileged status. That insensitivity has contributed to sporadic outbreaks of violence among this Creole community. "The younger generation doesn't really have any hope," says Jean-Michel Grosset, a high-school principal and resident of the town of L'Entre-Deux (pop. 5,000). "They live off benefit payments and anesthetize themselves with alcohol and marijuana. It's a breeding ground for despair...
...that the tone of the office environment was going to shift from the hurly-burly of the Clinton era. But this is simply going too far. Bush’s time-tested aproach to leadership, as is evidenced by his time-nearly-expired cabinet, seems to have crowded the younger generation out of the Old Executive Office Building...
Ford's uninhibited candor is a real draw to many of his younger supporters...
...Parker: Secular types are not thrilled about the proposal, but are more willing to apply the program across the board, rather than limit who gets the money. Older people, aged 65 and older, are much less enthusiastic about the program than younger folks, and they're also very concerned with separation of church and state. Some researchers theorize that this fear makes sense; older Americans come from an era when a majority religion was much more evident in every aspect of public life. People who lived through that era could, I'm sure, imagine state-sponsored religion becoming an issue...
...stout in Ireland have dropped slightly in the last year (according to U.S. News and World Report), a change that could be attributed to a growing population of successful young adults who scorn the old-school brew. In the pubs I visited during my trip there, the glasses of younger people did have a noticeably lighter hue, and the popularity of Budweiser in this legendary land of ale made me shudder...