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...Rompuy is a Christian Democrat, from the family of center-right parties that dominate European governments and the European Parliament. The President of the Commission, Portugal's José Manuel Barroso, is also from the center right. Ashton was a dark horse, but she was seen as a consolation prize for Britain's center-left Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after his attempt to secure the presidency for Blair was rebuffed. For E.U. leaders struggling to meet the criteria - a task that one official likened to "three-dimensional chess" - they could at least claim that the Van Rompuy-Ashton...
...still spends lavishly on culture, including financing three separate opera houses. The city government is trying to encourage local start-ups, especially in the fashion industry. The authorities are thrilled by Berlin's new allure. "Our image here is completely decoupled from that of the rest of Germany," gushes Christian Tänzler, the spokesman for the tourism office. (Read: "Why the Berlin Wall Came Down...
Less than three minutes into the game, freshmen Kyle Casey and Christian Webster and sophomore Andrew Van Nest made their first appearances in Harvard uniforms...
...arrival in Bindoon, a small town in Western Australia, marked the end of his formal education. By 14, he was driving a truck to collect rocks and sand for a construction site where he and other child-migrant laborers were working. They were under the control of the Christian Brothers, an international Catholic congregation who are today notorious for their record of physically and sexually abusing orphans. "[The Brothers] were not afraid to use a belt. They wore these black robes that had a pocket on the inside - like a holster," remembers Humphreys. "And their belts would crack out like...
...Clara raise their daughter Irie. The children attempt to eke out their place in English society, not really belonging to the culture of their parents or the place where they were born: “Millat was neither one thing nor the other, this or that, Muslim or Christian, Englishman or Bengali; he lived for the in between, he lived up to his middle name, ‘Zulfikar,’ the clashing of two swords.” Like many of the writers of the emergent “hysterical realism” movement, Smith sets her agenda...