I have been too busy with deadlines to write something detailed on recent events in France, but did want to point readers to Katrin Bennhold's excellent piece in the International Herald Tribune on March 15. Bennhold, one of the paper's best reporters, asks the obvious question: If the government's labor law for youth is supposed to create jobs, where is the enthusiasm among the unemployed young people? Not to be found, she reports. Read it here at this link:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/03/14/news/paris.php