French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin seemed to strike the right note in his response to the riots. But his proposals also showed up the scale of the changes called for in society, to heal the deep wounds that have been exposed. Mr de Villepin has made a start. No more evasion, and not too much rhetoric about the "values of the Republic." He has called the situation by its real name - "a crisis in France's cities." Others have called it a rebellion by an angry underclass. Mistakes admitted The French prime minister struck a balance between denouncing the...