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...What Souter did have were unquestionable intellectual chops. He majored in philosophy and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard. Then came the Rhodes scholarship that took him to Oxford and the Harvard law degree that quickly brought him a job with a New Hampshire law firm. But Souter was restless in private practice. By 1968 he had joined the staff of the state attorney general's office. When Warren Rudman became attorney general two years later he tapped Souter as his chief aide, and when Rudman moved on to the U.S. Senate in 1976 he persuaded...
...Does this spell the end of a process that brought cheap plumbers and chirpy barmaids westwards, anchored democracy and stability in the east, and reunited the European family...
...bullet. They're right - it must. But what matters is getting it to choose, not whether Hamas chooses before we talk to it or after. The Irish Republican Army only publicly renounced armed struggle in 2005, a full seven years after the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which brought its civilian wing into the political process. And even in the case of the PLO, the U.S. and Israel negotiated secretly with Arafat for years before he finally met our demands...
...financial crisis hit, these darlings of international capitalism found their open economies amongst the most vulnerable. The International Monetary Fund - recently involved in bailouts for Hungary, Latvia and Ukraine - now forecasts a 3.7% drop in GDP for the central and eastern European region for 2009. The downturn has brought down governments in Latvia and Hungary, and a prolonged crisis could translate into further political instability. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...same time, many older members are snobbish towards the supposed hicks from the east. The newcomers brought dynamism and diversity to the E.U., but they are often treated like second-class members. "Nobody should preach to us now," Poland's Europe Minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz says. "Some of the economies in the [east] are much more stable, and certainly the public finances are much more healthy, than in many of the eurozone countries...