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...clav Klaus doesn't hide his scorn of the European Union. The irascible Czech President refuses to fly the E.U. flag over Prague Castle. He argues that climate change - targeted in one of the E.U.'s signature policies - is a myth. On his only visit to the European Parliament, in February, he bluntly compared the E.U. to the Soviet Union. So it is no surprise that the 68-year-old former economist should try to sink the Lisbon Treaty, which aims to overhaul the E.U.'s decision-making process and has been a decade in the making...
...similar to “livin it up” 12) DHA – student whose class you want to be in 13) To fizzle – to fail out of a class gracefully 14) The Chuck – The Charles River 15) Clav – Claverly Hall, as in “Heard you got the Clav…” 16) “hangover chicken” - the oddly shaped chicken cutlets filled with oozing broccoli, served every Sunday at brunch...
...With Clav, you eventually have to just get used to all the noise you hear—construction, talking, music, the Lampoon, and street noise, so it shouldn’t be too much of a problem,” said Omar M. Abdelsamad...
DIED. Barbara Epstein, 77, literary lion who as a founder and co-editor of the New York Review of Books worked with--and in many cases, befriended--writers such as Joyce Carol Oates, Desmond Tutu, Vclav Havel and Alison Lurie; in New York City. Epstein was a junior editor at Doubleday when she helped produce Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl in 1952. During a 1963 newspaper strike, she helped launch the Review with her then husband Jason Epstein and shared, with Robert Silvers, responsibility of editing it for the next 43 years. Her sharp pencil...
...dreamed big dreams: Margaret Thatcher, determined to reverse Britain's long and complacent slide into a grimy irrelevancy; Helmut Kohl, with his passion to reunify Germany; Jacques Delors, bludgeoning the member states of the European Union into taking seriously their promise to forge an ever closer union; Václav Havel, insisting that Europe was a single moral and political space that should never again be divided into a free West and an oppressed East. They don't make them like that anymore, of course, and there is a conventional explanation why. In the 50 years after World...