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...back to the normal state of affairs." Judging by recent French history, the students' victory is likely to be partial for other reasons, too. The same combustible sequence of events that killed Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's contested youth job bill has played out in identical fashion twice before in the past decade. Huge protests confronted the government's attempt to overhaul pensions in the mid-1990s, and they broke out again when it tried to shake up the Finance Ministry in 2000. In both cases, the government also backed off, with serious consequences. The 1996 climbdown by then...
...Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters...
...patrols or strangers in the area," says Fort, who, like many municipal officials, is implementing Borloo's measures and augmenting them with policies of her own. She has made a tough anticrime drive central to her efforts. "It's hard to convince a kid or even entire families making twice or three times as much as they would working legitimate jobs to reject dealers." That's why in Epinay-sur-Seine, a suburb to the north of Paris, reform means cracking down on dealers. Jean-Michel Genestier, chief of staff to the mayor, says, "Each time there's been...
DIED. Scott Crossfield, 84, civilian aircraft designer and cold war test pilot who in 1953 became the first man to fly at Mach 2, twice the speed of sound--a record that spurred his rival, U.S. Air Force ace Chuck Yeager, to surpass it a month later; in a crash of Crossfield's single-engine Cessna in the mountains north of Atlanta. One of the post--World War II supersonic-jet aviators whom author Tom Wolfe said had "the right stuff," Crossfield dismissed the macho image of his field, saying that for most pilots he knew, the "main interest outside...
...shut out Harvard in the first and third quarters and took a 4-1 lead into halftime.“We had our chances early on,” Farrar said. “We just didn’t convert.”Sophomore driver Vivian Liao scored twice to lead the Crimson.The championship game marked the final home game for Harvard’s four seniors: captain drivers Arin Keyser and Sarah Kennifer, goaltender Lydia Gardner, and 2M-O Molly Mehaffey.“It wasn’t sad like I thought it would...