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...call for member states" to bring their tax systems closer in line. But it's a wake-up call that could have been anticipated. Tax has long been the odd man out of European integration. While E.U. states have largely coordinated their policies on value-added tax and custom duties to smooth the workings of the single market, national governments continue to jealously guard the right to set their own direct taxation of companies and individuals. The very notion of tax "harmonization" is vigorously opposed by some governments, particularly Britain and the new member states in Eastern Europe where rates...
Today Ra'ed's father denies that the family favors jihadist attacks in Iraq, insisting that in line with Muslim custom he calls his son a martyr simply because he was killed in a foreign land. Had he known what Ra'ed was up to, he says, he would have blocked his son's plans to leave the country and informed the police to keep an eye on him. Mansour says he would not be surprised if Ra'ed showed up at the door someday, as if his disappearance were some mistake or just a bad dream. But like...
...Reid will win the judicial battle. He holds the ultimate nuclear weapon, the ability to bring the Senate to a halt using individual points of privilege. Frist will have to convince not only moderates but also a handful of Republican traditionalists that they should vote to overturn a Senate custom-the filibuster-that protected their rights in years past. There is danger to Reid's strategy, of course. The Democrats run the risk of seeming hopelessly recalcitrant, of using legislative gimmicks to achieve in Congress what they have resoundingly failed to accomplish at the ballot...
...with the support of the Church last March, is unlikely to take on the prelates. But cremation advocates are gearing up for a fight. "Debate and discussion with the Church must begin over cremation," says Kyriakos Mitsotakis, one of 10 lawmakers lobbying for a new bill to allow the custom. If not, warns Antonis Alakiotis, president of the Committee for the Progress of Cremation in Greece, "then we will proceed with our plans to set up a crematorium [in eastern Athens] and deal with the legalities later...
...that. Both Marc Jacobs and Prada have added handwrought cachet to their spring collections by embellishing them with crocheted elements. The Wrangler jeans company recently hired Wendy Mullin to design a new line called Wrangler 47. Mullin made her name as a downtown--New York City designer who created custom guitar straps for rock stars and then took her flair for making clothing and filled a whole store with hipster wear. Her creations for Wrangler gave the classic brand a modern update with '70s rock-'n'-roll roots. But no one has taken the allure of the handmade further than...