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...today's Europe differ from your expectations? I had not imagined we would be 27 members. In the 1960s I thought we would grow a little. Though they were under authoritarian regimes, I thought Greece, Spain and Portugal would one day join us. But I didn't know the Berlin Wall would fall...
High levels of corruption - a perennial scourge of Africa - are also fueling discontent. According to Berlin-based good governance watchdog Transparency International, graft is seen to be a "serious" problem in Senegal. In his victory speech, Wade vowed to target rising levels of corruption - especially that of his adversaries - raising the specter of further political conflict. He also pledged that the majority of Senegalese would have jobs within two years, but failed to outline how he'd achieve that tall task. Back in Dakar, taxi driver Saliou Diouf, 27, pondered an uncertain future: "Next time will be different - until then...
...idea of Europe was set to paper, on a continent unsettled but past the worst of the postwar period. The air was clear of sulfur if not spleen. Ireland was a small rock in the North Atlantic made relevant only by its cultural totems and ever increasing diaspora. In Berlin a chasm was opening up between East and West--the partition of lives, fortunes and fates. In the global struggle between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., between freedom and totalitarianism, Europe was the fault line and the front line. Old Europe was being rebuilt to fight the next...
...word for my life is curiosity,” he says. “I’m an extremely curious person. I hope to open doors for others. I hope they experience something they wouldn’t normally.” Tutschku, who was born in Berlin, has had an intimate relationship with art from a young age. Both his parents were musicians, and he started playing the piano at the age of 5. At 15, he joined a theater group. Although drama is one of his passions, Tutschku prefers the freedom of composing...
...warmest reception. What he got instead was a tense tour finale. Bush apparently hadn't read many of Calderon's remarks in the months and weeks leading up to their Yucatan summit this week - such as his comparing a Bush-approved, 700-mile-long border fence to the Berlin Wall, or calling the illegal immigration issue an "open wound" for U.S.-Mexico relations. Calderon defeated his own left-wing opponent last summer by only half a percentage point, and few countries feel more resentful about Bush's recent snubbing of Latin America than Mexico does. So while Bush rightly considers...