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Sunday, May 25, 2003
posted by gbarto at 2:37 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Protesters converge on Paris. For the protest against proposed retirement pension reforms that is. In France, there's a much bigger government run pension system, which allows people to retire as young as 50 and pays much more generous benefits than Social Security, which is why it's near bankruptcy. But if Social Security is the third rail of American politics, it is powered by 9v batteries compared to in France. Which is why a majority of the French are said to favor the demonstrations that have been shutting down the country, one section at a time, and which are expected to usher in a resurgence of even more debilitating strikes, walkouts and work actions.
Ouest-France is in weekend mode; no news on the front of their website, but there is this review concerning Henriette Walter's "animots" and how they have revealed France's interest in its language and the history of that language. "Animots," incidentally, sounds like "animaux" (animals) but ends with the word for... "words" ("mots"). It's kind of like if you did a book on how we describe animals in English and called it "The Birds and the Bes".
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