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...difficult to imagine where your correspondent Michael Elliott has been these past 50 years. The E.U. is a 1950s solution to 1930s problems. It is a cumbersome, profoundly undemocratic, unitary system of government by unelected bureaucrats. Endemic corruption is beyond repair. Is that the price of easier travel and cleaner beaches? Free trade and freely negotiated agreements among sovereign nations - that's what we need. Not this lumbering, inefficient dinosaur that has too much in common with the former Soviet Union. The Europeans are neighbors of us Brits. They should be our friends. They cannot be our masters. Many Europeans...
...followed several friends to Dublin. Today he logs 10 hours a day as a roofer and recently put money down on a new Dublin home. "In Poland I would have to work many, many years to have the same standard of living," he says. Wlodzimierz Oska, 44, a cleaner at the same construction site, sends $1,300 home each month to his wife and four children. Coming to Dublin was a "crazy thing," said Oska. He had never left Poland before. A trained electrician, he now makes twice as much sweeping up as he did at home plying his trade...
Written without a hint of irony--if only your neighborhood dry cleaner sent his employees home by hybrid limousine--this front-page dispatch captured perfectly the eco-pretensions of the rich and the stupefying gullibility with which they are received...
...Tsang is acting as if he's in a real race. He has gone to the trouble of releasing a manifesto that spells out his ambitious plans to make Hong Kong a richer, cleaner, more equitable and more democratic society. In a town run by an aggregation of élites, he has pressed the flesh in working-class neighborhoods, engaged in televised candidate debates with Leong, and even taken a ride in an open-topped bus, waving to people who can't vote for him. Tsang is doing all this because he wants a wider mandate...
...can’t be too disappointed, but we didn’t execute as well as we could have,” Fitz said. “We have big matches coming up, so we would have liked to be a little cleaner.” The Crimson will travel to New Jersey and New York for two important league matches against NJIT and NYU, respectively...