So Much to Do, So Little Time  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8811 (Nov. 2012), page SS3-SS5.
Topik: International; Cultural Identity; Economic Planning; Presidents; Governmental Reform

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The hall of mirrors in the palace of Versailles, near Paris, where the eponymous peace treaty was signed in 1919, has been sparklingly restored. Yet as you follow the hordes of (mostly Chinese) tourists around, you notice that the reflections in the ancient looking-glasses are slightly distorted. Versailles's creator, Louis XIV, who famously asserted that l'Etat, c'est moi, stood for a certain kind of statism that survives to this day, and similarly distorts the image of modern France. There are free-market successes but also too many instances of excessive state control; economic triumphs but also failures; northern puritanism but also a certain southern laxity. These contrasts make it easy to present the country in both a negative and a positive light.

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