September 2, 2005
Lessons From -- Quelle Horreur! -- les Américains
France's venerable political-science institute adopts controversial reforms
Richard Descoings epitomizes a certain breed of cultured, worldly Frenchman.
Impeccably tailored, with his hair slicked back in a coiffure few American college presidents could carry off, he is forcefully articulate in both French and English. His business card identifies him not just as director of the prestigious Institute of Political Studies of Paris (better known as "Sciences Po") and administrator
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