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Washington, Broken Peter Beinart, in "Why Washington's Tied Up in Knots," presents the usual call from the media for evenhanded solutions [March 1]. His ideas for getting both parties to cooperate are tepid. For government to work, it takes good faith and honorable conduct from everyone in society. Beinart seems to have noticed that the Republicans have stepped out of bounds, but he just can't bring himself to call the foul. Peter Rosenthal Charleston...
...corporate battle has broken out across the Atlantic in Europe. Call it the "Low-Fare Airline Wars." The dueling companies, Ryanair and easyJet, have always had an intense rivalry, but in recent weeks, the backbiting between the bargain-basement airlines has gotten ugly - and personal. The fighting began when Ryanair launched an ad earlier this year accusing London-based easyJet of trying to hide its on-time flight statistics and depicting the airline's founder, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, with an elongated Pinocchio nose. The Greek-born tycoon was not amused. In a statement last month, he lashed out at Ryanair...
...counselor at a Bavarian spa town, the priest at the center of the German Catholic Church scandal paid a visit to the man who had been his therapist in Munich when the troubles began back in the 1980s. Dr. Werner Huth describes his former patient as now being a "broken old man and very depressed." But, he says, "the priest still sees himself as a victim...
...financial despair. The mother apparently believed that her daughter's failure to win a highly coveted place at an international school had doomed the child to a life of mediocrity and that it would be best for them to die together (the girl miraculously survived unhurt, her fall broken by netting...
...metals and industrial waste, destroying the habitats of the local bear and bird populations. "So far, practically everything that we supposedly agreed to with the government and the contractors has in the best case remained only on paper," the group said. Both Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Federation have broken off ties with Russia's state-owned Olympstroi construction firm, citing an unwillingness of the company to cooperate. (When reached by TIME, the company declined to comment...