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...living in Berlin at the time so my editor flew in and took Middlesex off of my desk and back to America,” Eugenides recounted. “I tend to doubt my work a lot. I’m always reading it through for flow and messing with it again. It’s not the most effective way, but I enjoy writing that way… I wrote ten openings for “Middlesex” before finding the right one. That was eight hundred to a thousand pages in the trash...
...unified policy (notably during the financial crisis in 2008 and 2009), and strengthening ties with Russia, to the chagrin of Britain and France. "Behind the scenes Germany is still pretty much the puppet master in the E.U., pulling many strings," says Ulrike Guérot, head of the Berlin office of the European Council on Foreign Relations. "But sometimes Berlin is deciding not to pull any strings at all now, in which case nothing happens. Germany is starting to become good at avoiding Europe in a very subtle...
...past few months obsessing over how Washington views it. Obama has visited Europe six times since taking office, and made just one trip to China. But the U.S. President's decision to skip the Spain summit, and his failure to attend the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, has had Europe acting like a jilted lover. French press reported that Sarkozy was forced to console an upset Merkel ahead of the Wall ceremony by painting Obama as a distant being whose presence would not be missed. "If you make a really big effort, he'll send...
...democratic; its values are closer to those of the U.S. than those of anywhere else. But Europeans cannot rely on that shared sensibility to secure American favor forever. The world beyond Europe's borders is changing fast. What counts now, says Constanze Stelzenmüller, senior transatlantic fellow at Berlin's German Marshall Fund, is what Europe "can bring to the table." So far, it's bringing too little. Do Europeans want that to change? If so, now would be a good time to say so. - With reporting by Leo Cendrowicz / Brussels, Bruce Crumley / Paris, Stephan Faris / Rome and Tristana...
...Counterterrorism experts say the trial confirmed for the first time the existence of an IJU cell on German soil. "The IJU showed it was determined to plot terrorist attacks in Europe," says Guido Steinberg, an analyst at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. And, according to Steinberg, the number of homegrown extremists has only increased since then. He estimates that in 2009, around 40 jihadists traveled from Germany to terrorist training camps in Pakistan. "The challenge for the German authorities is to reach out to these young men and small Islamist groups as early as possible...