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...March Madness On Demand. Since freshman year I’ve been able to get nearly all the games live on my computer and can switch between them at will. The CBS toy also works around the world, as I pleasantly discovered while abroad last spring. The travesty that European bars don’t ever tend to show tournament games is negated. Watching Final Four and Championship games that start at two or three in the morning was no problem. And easily worth it. Thanks...
...backseat, and neutrals, Zen greens and black dominate the color palette in the suites, all of it magnified by those giant windows. You are trying not to call it elegant, because that's not supposed to happen in Vegas, but the Encore exudes elegance right down to the European antiques that decorate some of the lounge areas. There's a separate check-in area for the tower suites that just oozes calm. (Watch TIME's video on Macau's gambling scene...
...country's bracing northern climate. Northern peoples tend to drink without food, says Paul Waterson, chief executive of the Scottish Licensed Trade Association, which represents pubs, hotels, clubs and other licensees. "Sticking some tables and chairs outside a Scottish pub doesn't mean you'll get southern European drinking." He supports the government's new initiative but adds, "You can't change a culture by law." That's a sobering thought indeed for Scottish legislators...
...many, these might be trivial matters with few implications for the long-term transatlantic relationship. But in Europe they are parsed with dutiful solemnity. Hence the significance of Clinton's visit to Brussels today to meet European Union and NATO ministers and officials. "Europeans never miss an opportunity to read bad omens in a new President," says Daniel Korski, senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "But if there is one word for Obama's foreign policy, it is engagement. He will want European help in dealing with the financial crisis. He will become more involved...
...anniversary summit in Strasbourg and Baden-Baden. "There is an overarching theme to the trip to Brussels, which is the reconnection of the United States with Europe and really a sense of consolidating this enormous political goodwill on both sides of the Atlantic," interim Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried said in a statement. After years of strained relations between the Bush Administration and much of Europe, Obama should be able to tie this goodwill to some of the policies that are now aligning the E.U. on the side of the U.S., from climate change to Iran...