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...heroism was demonstrated by a man whose career choice promised him safety and security. As a schoolboy, Liviu Librescu survived the Holocaust, but as a professor more than six decades later, he died blocking a classroom door to save his imperiled students. Perhaps the horrors he experienced as a youth created in him a bravery so profound that as soon as he heard gunshots, he knew what he had to do. It's impossible to say how God's hand plays into such things, but no matter how miraculous Librescu's survival during World War II, moments before his brave...
...French Presidential election. As hundreds of young French people in their 20s and 30s stared anxiously at a large TV screen, the air of expectation recalled the penalty shootout that resolved last summer's World Cup soccer final between France and Italy. But this time, when the French youth of New York broke out in song, the tune was not Allez les Bleus, but La Marseillaise, sang in a passionate spirit not seen in French politics in two generations...
...French workers, by law, are not required to work more than 35 hours a week. Strikes and street demonstrations have become an integral part of French life - millions of students last year protested against labor-law reforms aimed at reducing youth unemployment by easing the bureaucratic restrictions that discourage companies from creating new jobs. The world was shown an image of France as a nation paralyzed by a fear of change and risk...
Last year, when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin proposed a very modest reform to address the 21.5 percent youth unemployment rate that would have given young employees slightly less job security, widespread student street demonstrations caused the reform bill to be withdrawn. The obvious conclusion drawn from this experience by French politicians was that any further moves toward reform would have to be deferred until the Presidential election and perhaps a fresh round of parliamentary elections. (Sarkozy himself, seeing a chance to undermine his rival, Villepin, opposed the reform.) As for the French youth, a recent poll shows that...
...action programs to France (hitherto unknown in this welfare state) while the “socialist” Royal vigorously opposes them. Sarkozy’s opponents claim that his platform is “brutal” and that it will rend the French social fabric. Depressingly, French youth (especially those in the banlieues who would particularly gain from his fresh approach), seem the most susceptible to these arguments and are the most passionately aroused by the “Tout Sauf Sarkozy” movement...