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...longest-serving Prime Minister in postwar Italy, Berlusconi might be tempted to try to score points off his opponent's youth and inexperience--except that his rival, former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, is 66. Whoever wins, Italy will remain the only West European country with a sexagenarian Prime Minister. For Italians the face-off between two candidates born in the 1930s is a discomfiting reminder of the country's geriatric tilt. "It's the same faces saying the same things," says Mariangela Potenza, 24, a university student from Basilicata. "There's nothing that transmits innovation or novelty to the voters...
...crisis appears to be Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy - front-runner in the 2007 presidential race that Villepin is expected to contest too, with Chirac's likely backing. Sarkozy called for "compromise" with protesters - a position at odds with his plan for vast reforms cutting far deeper than the youth labor law. "We have a program, but we're pragmatic," says a Sarkozy adviser. "Plus, you need stability and calm to reform." Until the next protests, anyway...
...will soon be determined when an independent commission issues its ruling on whether the law is even constitutional. The 12 justices on France's Constitutional Council are set to deliver their judgment late this week on the legality of de Villepin's controversial law-which seeks to reduce chronic youth unemployment levels of over 20% by allowing businesses to fire workers aged 26 and under after less than two years on the job without having to dole out hefty severance pay. Detractors argue that the law ignores French constitutional guarantees of equal rights and treatment for all citizens - a general...
Famously permissive San Francisco, home of the counterculture revolution 40 years ago, might seem an odd choice for a giant Christian youth rally that its organizers dubbed a "reverse rebellion" against the excesses of pop culture. But sex and drugs were most emphatically not included with the rock 'n' roll at San Francisco's AT&T Park this past weekend, when some 25,000 screeching teens attended what amounted to a Lollapalooza for the Lord...
...here." Lolly Winston shares her personal experience with in vitro fertilization: "I'm caught up in the urgency of time passing, eggs aging, chances diminishing." Lynn Freed reflects on having survived breast cancer: "A 50-year-old woman is no longer an old woman, even in our youth-mad culture. There is still life in her." And there is plenty of life in this celebration of women aging with vitality...