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While some of America's staunchest supporters find themselves wondering if the U.S. still stands for the values that made them fall in love with it 60 years ago, many Europeans remain willing to look for hopeful signs of rapprochement. Christoph Bertram, director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, thinks "we now have an America that needs allies and is much more aware of it." The battle for their hearts and minds is far from over. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington, James Graff/Paris, Jeff Israely/Rome, Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Charles P. Wallace/Berlin
...them look better on the domestic front, they will seize it." In the past, Germany and France only needed each other to look good. Monetary union and the euro itself are parade examples of big changes they led. But with enlargement, "they have lost this precious status," says Christoph Bertram, director of the Institute for International Politics and Security in Berlin. "The rest of the European Union no longer automatically regards their decisions as in the interest of Europe." When they couldn't pull all of Europe into the antiwar camp last year, Chirac grew annoyed and said those...
All’s Well is a sort of fractured fairy tale. Helena (Caroline T. Koo ’04), a poor physician’s daughter, is in love with her foster brother, Bertram (Simon N. Nicholas ’07). However, she considers him too far above her in rank for marriage—until she realizes that she can use her dead father’s notes to make a medicine that will cure the King of France (graduate student Nicholas J. O’Donovan) and compel him, out of gratitude, to allow her to marry...
...Bertram, Nicholas had the opposite tendency— he grew better as the play progressed. He certainly showed arrogance, but not as much as one would hope (indeed, it seemed almost a waste of talent that Gamboa failed to draw more on the naturally occurring arrogance of young, egotistical Harvard students). But this isn’t to disparage Nicholas; he did give a strong performance, especially during his attempted seduction of Diana (Emily V. W. Galvin ’04), his would-be lover...
...Bertram, Nicholas had the opposite tendency— he grew better as the play progressed. He certainly showed arrogance, but not as much as one would hope (indeed, it seemed almost a waste of talent that Gamboa failed to draw more on the naturally occurring arrogance of young, egotistical Harvard students). But this isn’t to disparage Nicholas; he did give a strong performance, especially during his attempted seduction of Diana (Emily V. W. Galvin ’04), his would-be lover...