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...that economic self-interest will. Last November the European Commission declared that "there is a growing recognition that the 'zero' immigration policies of the last 30 years are no longer appropriate." Germany announced plans last March to admit 20,000 foreign computer experts over the next three years, and Chancellor Gerhard Schrsder is pushing to expand this green-card initiative to workers in other sectors. Ireland has loosened immigration requirements for non-E.U. workers in technology, nursing and construction. Even Italy's government has introduced measures to admit 63,000 industrial laborers a year. Says British European Parliament Member...
...power. But like Leno and Letterman, the capital is also buzzing about his health. After all, the man has had four heart attacks, and though he's only 5 1/2 years older than Dubya (Cheney turned 60 last week), his physique is decidedly old school--more like former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's than our gym-addicted President's. Does he have the stamina to be the most powerful Veep in history...
...AUSTRIA No Meltdown - Yet Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel's coalition government weathered its worst crisis since taking office when 15% of voters signed a petition calling for the shutdown of a nuclear power plant in neighboring Czech Republic. The petition, which was organized by Jörg Haider's Freedom Party, demanded that Prague close the plant or risk an Austrian veto on its application to join the E.U. Although the Freedom Party's pro-E.U. partners opposed the vote, they agreed to renew discussions with Prague on the safety of the Temelin plant across Austria's eastern...
...data, which is from the year Spence was denied admission, casts doubt on the claims of discrimination against public school students brought about by Gordon Brown, the British chancellor...
DIED. JOHN RICE, 77, minister and former vice chancellor of the University of Denver, whose daughter, National Security Adviser-designate Condoleezza Rice, recounted at the Republican National Convention last year how he had joined the G.O.P. in 1952 in segregated Alabama after the Democrats refused to register him; in Palo Alto, Calif. A longtime community activist, Rice in recent years organized coaching and tutoring programs in the Bay Area...