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The demonstrators have drifted off the streets of Paris, taking home with them a famous victory.(Brief article)

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* The demonstrators have drifted off the streets of Paris, taking home with them a famous victory. President Chirac and Dominique de Villepin, his prime minister and crony, passed a law aimed at remedying the country's chronic unemployment by loosening regulations that make hiring prohibitively expensive. The unions, and particularly the students about to come on the labor market, would have none of it, hastening instead to the barricades. This was violence enough to force the Chirac-Villepin combination into ...

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