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...Krauthammer stated that "with a few trusted friends, America must carry on alone." What bad advice! It's the last thing the U.S. should do. Instead, America needs to learn from its terrible mistakes such as backing Saddam Hussein or the Afghan Taliban in the first place. Sean Nowak Berlin...
DIED. ELEANOR HOLM WHALEN, 90, saucy Olympic swimming champion; in Miami. After winning the gold medal in the 100-m backstroke at the 1932 Games, she was favored to win again in 1936 in Berlin. But before the Games, she was thrown off the U.S. team for drinking and throwing dice with sportswriters. Her bad behavior, ahead of its time, propelled her to celebrity. She appeared in the movie Tarzan's Revenge and swam in Billy Rose's Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair, a spectacle that landed her on the cover of TIME...
...bewildering sight: after a year of slugging each other over Iraq, here come Europe's Big Three leaders, bloodied, bandaged, limping - and leaning on each other for support. Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder meet this week in Berlin, but despite the obligatory grins and displays of solidarity, the Three Amigos they are not. Not long ago Blair was warning publicly that Chirac was trying to drag Europe down a dead end of reflexive opposition to the U.S. in pursuit of a moldy Gaullist dream of French glory - and complaining privately that Chirac...
...economic woes - underfunded state pensions, low productivity, slow growth, high unemployment - this week's summit will intrude upon sensitive territory for the smaller states. The Gang of Three will endorse a joint paper on these topics they can present to other E.U. leaders in March. One diplomat in Berlin says Schröder particularly wants his domestic reform package to get a Blair seal of approval this week, to help him sell it at home. But is another report good for anything more than p.r.? "On economic reform, France and Germany are laggards, not the avant garde," says Grant. Their...
...Some younger artists find Schnabel less than experimental, even old hat. "Schnabel has no influence on younger artists like myself," says Reynold Reynolds, 37, a New York City multimedia artist currently at the American Academy in Berlin. "He's holding on to a tradition that's just not all that relevant. I would say it's like John Grisham. Extremely popular, but is John Grisham influencing serious young authors? I don't think...