This young woman was at a protest in Paris shortly after the bombing of Iraq started 5 years ago. French students require very little in the way of a cause to have a demonstration. They are amazingly orderly, the gendarmes are out to maintain calm and the crowd is able to make its point. They were closing a significant portion of the St. Germain de Pres every afternoon during the week in March that I was there. I doubt that would happen these days in the US-close down a major street for an anti-war protest. I have been struck by how often I encounter images of Ché Guevara in other parts of the world than Cuba. He has become a sort of international symbol of protest and revolution. Man people regard him as as butcher, others as as brilliant strategist, and some as a confused young man enamored of his impossible idealism. Whatever, and he may have been all three of these plus much more, no one can deny but what he was an interesting person.
