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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...
...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...
...riding his Harley. "Watch me," he told TIME in a recent interview at the wood-paneled fourth-floor office where his father used to hold court. "My father didn't want a political dynasty. What I would like to do is work in politics for three or four years, establish a real party and then just step down." But gradually he is warming to the role that fate has delivered him. When he appeared at a recent Beirut campaign rally, he practically had to be dragged out of his seat to read a speech to supporters...
...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...
...planes, thousands of special forces soldiers and Intel sources - had failed to do. After reading up on earlier mountain battles against the Russians, Adam identified what appeared to be a potential escape route for "White-collar al-Qaeda." On previous occasions other coalition Special Forces teams had attempted to establish secret observation posts in the district, but they had barely lasted a day before being discovered by shepherds or villagers...