If I could swap out French higher ed today for California higher ed in 1960, would I?

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For today the French election campaign has fallen silent.

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But the problem with at least one of those semi-rational explanations is that all three ratings agencies have today said they're not going to downgrade France from AAA, and also that the price of French government bonds has actually risen today, which would be a good thing for French banks.

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Today saw French President Nicholas Sarkozy advocating for a Tobin Tax, a tax on spot currency conversions as a funding mechanism for development aid.

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And they would rightly judge us as harshly as we today judge the British and the French for what they did at Munich in 1938.

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Facebook billionaires Mark Zuckerberg, Sean Parker, and Yuri Milner are among the Silicon Valley heavy hitters in Paris today and tomorrow as French president Nicolas Sarkozy pushes for new internet privacy regulations.

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The French Finance Minister, Francois Baroin, has talked today about the need for a "strong message" to come out of tomorrow's special summit.

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French acronym for Association Internationale des Etudiants en Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, AIESEC today operates in areas that transcend the confines of its original French full-form.

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But it's the French custom of "souper" in the 17th Century that helped shaped what most of us eat for lunch today.

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