AND LIONS WLL LAY WITH LAMBS. I'm not enough of a globalization watcher to know what impact this will have, but it looks like the next president of the International Monetary Fund -- that bugaboo of globalization-skeptics everywhere -- will be a French socialist. And not some weak-kneed, in-name-only French socialist, but one who sponsored the government's reduction of the workweek from 39 to 35 hours and loudly criticized the IMF's handling of the Asian financial crisis in the late-90s. --Ezra Klein
