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...treaty was originally presented as a necessity, enabling an enlarged E.U. to function following the accession of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, since the Franco-Dutch rejection of the treaty, the E.U. has been functioning as well as it ever has done. But, of course, that was never the real purpose of the treaty. Nor was the true purpose to provide the E.U. with a proper constitution - an objective I warmly support. To understand what the treaty is all about, it is necessary to understand what the E.U. itself is all about...
...stability in trouble spots: The U.S. has not managed to bring peace to Iraq; NATO is deadlocked in Afghanistan; and the United Nations routinely falls short of its ambitions - even with the deployment of the world's biggest peacekeeping force in Sudan and Darfur. The same is true for eastern Congo, where fighting has continued despite the presence of what, until Darfur, was the world's biggest U.N. force. Ditto Rwanda 1994, when the major powers at the U.N. ensured that the organization remained paralyzed in the face of the genocide...
...village: news reports in early March said that nine patients had been treated for the potentially deadly and contagious disease in 10 days. While no deaths were reported, the Hindustan Times reported poor hygiene conditions on the site, which is not altogether surprising given that the Yamuna, on whose eastern bank the site is located, is one ofthe most polluted rivers in the world...
Sunseeker built 318 boats last year, but Braithwaite doesn't expect to better that pace five years from now. Why bother? He can keep revenues climbing by building bigger instead. Rapid growth in Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe, particularly Russia, is taking up the slack in the U.S. and Western Europe, where sales are softer. "An explosion in the client base" of high-net-worth individuals is generating sales, says Vincenzo Cannatelli, Ferretti's CEO. These aren't people who flinch at high fuel costs. "Many of our customers are making money from the price of oil," Cannatelli...
...high-speed train linking Lhasa to Beijing and other Chinese cities, thus allowing 6,000 more Han Chinese to flood into the Tibetan capital every day. Lhasa, sometimes known as an "abode of the gods," has turned from the small traditional settlement I first saw in 1985 into an Eastern Las Vegas, with a population of 300,000 (two out of every three of them Chinese). On the main streets alone, by one Western scholar's count, there are 238 dance halls and karaoke parlors and 658 brothels, and the Potala Palace-for centuries a symbol of a culture whose...