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...leaders of member countries would keep their hands off it and let the European Parliament, which is elected by the people and therefore has the mandate, make decisions regarding the E.U. The only way the E.U. will work is to get rid of the Brussels bureaucrats and have a civil service that is responsible only to the elected government of Europe. Gerhard Heinzelmann Gravesend, England The E.U. constitution is dead, but it would be fatal for Europe if Brussels continued with business as usual. We don't need another constitutional convention with myriad special interests complicating the process...
...often throughout the Plains as a fast-growing band of land-granting imitators has taken root from La Villa, Texas, to Chugwater, Wyo., to New Richland, Minn. Dozens of towns have some version of a land giveaway, and dozens more are considering it. "The giveaways worked once, after the Civil War," says David Darling, an expert in rural affairs at Kansas State University. "They have potential to work again...
...wrestling with some 60 civil lawsuits...
...problem is that the instinct to curtail our freedoms remains, not least in Musharraf himself. Like rulers before him, he appears to have little regard for civil liberties when they conflict with his political objectives. Hence his willingness to act in what he calls the "national interest": initially denying a gang-rape victim the right to travel (she might reflect badly on Pakistan), or tolerating the roughing up of supporters of a mixed-gender race (presumably because he thinks Pakistan is not yet ready for such an event...
...respect our own people, and Pakistan will be tolerant only when we protect the nonviolent expression of all shades of opinion. "Enlightened moderation" cannot simply be dictated from above. It will have to take root below, and for that to happen, the government needs to cease renting out stolen civil liberties and restore them to their rightful owners?the people from whom they were taken without consent...