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...they have been victims of their elders, who have hoarded generous social benefits for the last 20 years. Financing those benefits has created a debt whose annual interest approaches France's total annual income-tax revenues. Against this backdrop, Villepin has managed to drive onto the streets not just youth who are locked out of the labor market, but also civil-servant trade unions, which habitually block reform on the pretext of resistance against what they sloppily label "ultraliberalism." Such unholy alliances have characterized France's numerous civil wars. In 1358, the jacqueries (peasant uprisings), which gave birth...
Martina Navratilova must have a secret. The rivals of her youth have moved on--into retirement, onto highlight reels, up to the TV booth. Yet Navratilova, the tennis great who will turn 50 in October, is still whipping forehands past players who hadn't been born yet when she started on the pro tour in 1972. With her unusual endurance have come questions--lots of them. "The longer I play and the older I get," she says, "the more I get 'Why are you still doing this? How can you do it so well...
...marching in nationwide demonstrations this week aren't old enough to vote, their protest movement is already influencing the run-up to next year's presidential elections. As teachers, parents, and labor unions have joined growing opposition to a government law designed to loosen labor markets and battle dizzying youth unemployment, presidential hopefuls among conservatives and the leftist opposition alike have been forced to scramble to survive the rising tide of unrest - or try riding it to their advantage...
...greatest risk in the tempest is Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, who drove the pending law through parliament earlier this month without debate - and against the advice of fellow conservatives wary of provoking the very hostility the government now faces. The protesting youths are outraged that the law would allow businesses to fire workers aged 26 and under during their first two years of employment, without providing a reason or the usually hefty severance payments. Students and their backers dispute government contentions that the increased flexibility will reduce youth unemployment; instead, they say the law designates young people...
...willingness to negotiate came just hours after Interior Minister and fellow presidential aspirant Nicolas Sarkozy moved to carefully distance himself from de Villepin. Though expressing his general "solidarity" with the government in an interview with the weekly Paris Match, Sarkozy then cast himself as the understanding ally of French youth, who - unlike de Villepin - knows "you should never break the line of dialogue in a complex country like France...