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...stunningly clear: 55% of those who voted in France and 62% in the Netherlands rejected the European constitution. That effectively dooms the 448-article document, hammered out in more than two years of laborious negotiations to establish how Europe would be run, create the offices of Foreign Minister and European President and in general foster a greater sense of allegiance to the union. The E.U. is still a going concern, yet its legitimacy has been called into question. "It's a fundamental revolution," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London. "Nothing has changed, but everything...
...Minneapolis Lakers to five championships in the team's first six years; in Scottsdale, Arizona. At a time when towering players were thought to be insufficiently nimble, the bespectacled, 2.08 m DePaul graduate single-handedly dominated the newly formed National Basketball Association, drawing crowds, forcing the league to establish new rules (the original 1.83 m key was expanded to thwart his offensive dominance), and once prompting New York's Madison Garden officials to promote a 1949 game on its marquee as GEO. MIKAN VS. KNICKS...
...Abbas' efforts to rein in the militants. There shouldn't be any compromising of the safety of Israeli citizens. Sharon is dealing with not just the Palestinian Authority but also radical terrorist organizations. Ahunwa L. Kelechi Jos, Nigeria A Case for Press Freedom While the U.S. makes efforts to establish democracy and freedom throughout the world, American government officials sometimes lose sight of what is happening in their own country. I feel that Time's Matthew Cooper [May 23] and New York Times reporter Judith Miller have done their job as journalists, which is, of course, to truthfully report...
...Piero Risoluti Vienna You included Stockholm's Annika Billström among your selection of mayors who are making a difference. I can't really see why, since she has only brought us misery. Billström's party, the Social Democrats, promised in the 2002 election not to establish tolls on cars in Stockholm's inner city the way that London does. But after gaining power, that is exactly what Billström did. [The test period will begin next year.] Apparently, a politician can promise a certain amount of things but break those promises if the election outcome...
...Ellison Medical Foundation is close to completing discussions with Harvard for a $115 million gift to establish a research center for global health monitoring and five professorships at the University, according to professors at the School of Public Health...