Word: europeanizer
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...squeamish in showing the eroticism that once was crucial to the genre. The generation of "kids with beards," as Billy Wilder called Francis Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, took their cues from a wide range of movie sources - Saturday-matinee serials, John Cassavetes improv dramas, European angst-athons - and if they got excessive, it was in kitsch and violence, not sex. Rodriguez got some puffs of grindhouse steam going in Sin City; but here, he and Tarantino are as puritanical as their predecessors. All bang-bang, no French kiss-kiss...
Today, Britain lacks the muscle, economic and military, to intervene by herself. And this is where the EU comes in. Initially conceived partly as a vehicle to stop European decline in international influence, the organization was right to stress publicly that an affront to Britain is an affront to all Europeans. All foreign ministers and the German EU presidency used strong language to condemn the Iranians, to the point that Iran warned them against using “unguarded statements...
Although the former is key to diplomacy, the very promise of harder power at a European level would do wonders for its foreign policy, especially when individual actors like the British government seem paralyzed. Realistic stick threats work as well as real sticks. After all, this crisis challenges the ideological foundations of European unity. Taking hostages goes against democracy, respect for human rights, and the international rule of law–all core values of the European project...
...author, University of Kansas professor Koleman Strumpf, analyzed the sales of albums released on European school holidays, when they were more likely to be available on global file-sharing networks...
...more inclined to make calls based on their past experience. Boyko conducted the research with his two brothers, both former soccer referees. The study will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Sports Sciences, according to a Harvard press release. Though the study focuses on European soccer—well-known for its incredibly zealous fan-base—the researchers asserted the findings were applicable more generally. The brothers also concluded that referees exhibit biases even on neutral soil. “When we included the team itself, the name of the team as a factor...