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...against full E.U. membership. Harsher critics, such as Bavarian Governor Edmund Stoiber, have condemned Turkey's press restrictions and limited rights for minorities not as problems to be overcome, but as proof that Turkey is unsuitable for the European club. "Turkey is not a European state, and to admit its accession into the Union would change the character of Europe," Stoiber declared last week...
...There is no particular set percentage [of early admits],” he said. “If a majority of us feel 100 percent certain that we will take a person in April, then we just go ahead and admit them...
...finally found a station that didn’t recycle reincarnations of the Dixie Chicks on repeat. Charleston’s 96 the Wave played Nirvana and Marcy’s Playground — hits from the 90s that I should perhaps be embarrassed to admit I love. With the radio cranked up, I was frying catfish in the kitchenette, riding a wave of elementary school nostalgia when, all of the sudden, the sound of an insistent nasally twang snapped...
...Even better for the embattled President, someone else's woes are for once dominating the news. Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, party chairman of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT) and a likely 2008 presidential candidate, was forced to admit on Nov. 15 that an aide had forged receipts when tallying mayoral expenses. Ma also spent last Thursday morning being questioned by prosecutors over expense money Ma says went to charitable donations, but which his adversaries have accused him of keeping for himself. DPP lawmakers were the first to lodge an official complaint over Ma's expense accounts in August, and they...
Whatever the merits of Meredith's case, even her supporters can admit she is hardly the ideal plaintiff. She didn't attempt to sign her son up for kindergarten until August, despite numerous radio and TV announcements and signs posted in day-care centers and Laundromats reminding parents to apply for their choice of school by March. By the time Meredith (who declined to be interviewed for this article) did apply, most of the seats had been allocated. Cheryl Wirth, a waitress at Waffle House whose son attends a magnet school, thinks this alone ought to be enough to dispose...