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A new challenge to the Continent's leaders
It was supposed to be a political snapshot that just might catch a picture of the grass-roots trends in Western Europe. But the image that developed last week was blurred and distorted, a reflection of a Continent scowling and at odds with itself. Voters from the ten-nation European...
The disillusionment arises from a feeling that the Continent is mired in political and economic difficulties for which no solution is in sight. Nearly three decades after its birth, the European Community is far from being the incipient United States of Europe that its founders dreamed of. Instead, it is...
Even dispassionate critics question the economic wisdom of the IMF's policies. They charge that the fund's prescription is the same regardless of individual circumstance. For example, the IMF makes no distinction between deficits caused by a government's policies and those beyond its control. In...
As he says of Garcia Márquez, Blades has "one foot on the moon and the other on the earth. We are both citizens of an emotional continent." Blades' songs, featuring characters as diverse as political policemen, murdered priests and pregnant teenagers, explore exotic territory that is made...