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...things in France have changed under globalization in order to keep us competitive, but teaching people English here has remained old-fashioned and inefficient," says Julien Petitpas, one of the 10 young adults who gather for 12 hours a week to improve their English at the Berlitz language school near the Paris Opera. "In school it's all structure, grammar and getting it right on paper and in your head before you ever speak - and even then, you don't do much of that. It just doesn't work." (See pictures of Paris expanding...
That cozy post World War II arrangement, in which the state has regularly arbitrated between big business and unions, may have helped those three groups, but it has too often ignored wider French society. The system has made reform nearly impossible and is now "sclerotic," according to Julien Bayou, 29, one of the half-dozen or so people at the core of France's new protest movement. "Thirteen percent of people in France live in poverty, youth unemployment is above 25%, and the number of people who can't keep up with the price of rent and food continues...
...auction lot of 21 Michael Jackson items, ranging from vintage posters to a shirt, sold for $205,000 during a Las Vegas event the day after his death. The same items fetched only $15,000 in a private sale about six years earlier, says Darren Julien, president and founder of Julien's Auctions, who hosted the event. Among the items was a heavily-beaded shirt the pop artist wore during his Victory tour. "We had estimated it would get $2,000 to $3,000, but we sold it for $54,000," he says. (See TIME's photos of the Jackson...
...Another auction is currently in the works that will include the trademark sequined glove that Jackson first wore during Motown 25th anniversary show, where he first performed his famed moonwalk dance. "That piece is the Holy Grail," says Julien, who expects the item to sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...have Wall Street clientele who are looking at rock n roll memorabilia as a way to diversify their portfolios," Julien says...