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...Lisbon Treaty was not designed to colour chunks of the planet blue with yellow stars. Its job is to get the national economies of 27 extremely diverse nation-states working together more smoothly than before, and getting the politics united is just part of that economic lubrication. Better by far to be underwhelming and effective rather than overbearing and running a democracy where agreed national reform legislation - vitally needed - can find itself blocked due to the lack of one Senatorial vote. Caroline Walcot, BRUSSELS...
...Better Grades At least, at his Alma Mater in Jakarta, the Menteng school, the American President can be assured of an unreserved welcome. Two weeks before Obama was due to arrive in the Indonesian capital, batik-clad students practiced a traditional Indonesian gamelan-orchestra performance they hope to play for him. School principal Hasimah is proud of the school's connection to Obama, showing off a class photo of a young Barry standing among a crowd of Indonesian students. "His story provides a huge motivation to our students," she says. "It means that no matter what your background...
...quote a senior Asian official in your article: "they talk to each other endlessly," and, "they are very clubby." To be honest, worse things can be said about a union between nations that had been at war with each other for the better part of two millennia. All in all, I am happy that the E.U. is beautifully diverse and relatively humble. (Read: "The Incredible Shrinking Europe...
...experience helped drive her back to Sinatra. Originally she had wanted to do Dylan's love songs, she says, but was dissuaded for commercial reasons. Now she's returned to the basics: romance and movement--and winning over the audience. "It's called 'Make the folks feel a little better for an evening, and leave on a high,'" Tharp says. And if you miss the Balzac references, she'll probably forgive...
...their veins into 2-liter water bottles and juice jugs. The protesters then marched to Government House--the Prime Minister's official residence and office complex--and in a macabre pantomime of revolution, literally spilled their blood on the compound's gates and front steps. Ghastly? Perhaps. But certainly better than the alternative, says rice farmer Nawart Somsieng: "We can spill our blood for our country without using violence...