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...uber-prep look, I offer you... THREE TIPS: 1) Pair the blazer with something a little but more punky, like skinny jeans. You don’t want to look completely like an admissions catalog. 2) Try to wear a scarf with your blazer. The silhouette should be European and cosmopolitan, not country club. 3) Perhaps this jacket will replace that awful quilted Burberry jacket with the plaid collar that you have sitting in your closet. I sure hope so. —Staff writer Rebecca M. Harrington can be reached at harring@fas.harvard.edu...
...cultural discordance the large numbers of immigrants has brought is familiar to many European countries. "I'm the only Swiss citizen in my apartment building," says Juliana Hochstrasser, 68, shopping near her home in the middle-class Zurich suburb of Dübendorf. "If I put up a notice in the laundry, my neighbors cannot even read it," she says, adding that she had already mailed in her vote for the People's Party...
Forging a new legal framework for the greatly expanded European Union has been a six-year saga with plenty of woe. It finally reached a provisional end on Friday in Lisbon, when leaders of the 27 member states agreed to sign a new document that replaces the "constitution" that French and Dutch voters roundly rejected...
...Getting an agreement meant resolving squabbles, often driven by weak national governments trying to score domestic political points, over numerous obscure protocols, declarations, opt-ins and opt-outs. Among the arcana: How exactly does one count seats in the European Parliament? How much power should national parliaments have to trump legislation at the E.U. level? And can a member state freeze unfavorable legislation even if outvoted by its counterparts...
...itself. Those who have been designated “terrorists” by the powers-that-be, while sometimes guilty of heinous crimes against humanity, have hardly had a monopoly on terror. One only needs to revisit the historical record, where—as Frantz Fanon once wrote about European imperialism—we find an “avalanche of murders” carried out by those who “never stopped talking...