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...European integration rather than nationalist fervor remains the source of the town's economic success - despite the demise of its traditional livelihood, Arbroath's unemployment is falling and its wages rising at rates above the national average. Indeed, Arbroath has begun to flourish as a result of investment from the very institutions that decimated its traditional economy. The European Union's Common Fisheries Policy ran Arbroath's fishermen out of business; and E.U. agricultural policy for years made it impossible for local farms to compete. But local agriculture has recovered by accepting an influx of cheap labor from Poland...
...uniform. "With the insurgency in the tribal areas, the situation has become much more complex," says career diplomat Humayun Khan. "The military may try to step in, but it may not succeed." Pakistan today, he says, "has all the ingredients of a revolution: poverty, injustice, instability, alienation, religious fervor and an incompetent government. If the parties don't work together to solve these problems, there is a real danger that the government fails completely...
...despite such constant self-exposure, an easy affability that reads as openness and his willingness to perform without scripts or teleprompts, Cameron remains an enigma. Part of what makes him hard to categorize is that he's above all a pragmatist, priding himself on reasonableness rather than ideological fervor. During a wide-ranging interview at his Westminster office, he quickly dismisses the notion that his ideas amount to a political theology that might one day be known as Cameronism: "I think you just get on with it. It's the best thing to do in politics rather than trying...
...past week we’ve learned that despite officially renouncing her status as a Pentecostal Christian, Palin retains that tradition’s fervor for proselytizing. In the Chicago Tribune, Palin’s own pastor envisaged the political bearing her faith might have on the United States, saying, “I believe Sarah would not live in a fragmented world,” and adding that her worldview, “that really only the Bible and the relationship with Jesus opens up,” could not simply be ‘marginalized?...
Instead, they got a thriller. The eleven-point final margin belies the true fervor - and pleasure - of that last game, a true test for Team U.S.A. Both countries made a series of head-scratching shots, clutch three pointers, and pretty passes. "It will probably go down in history as one of the greatest Olympic games ever," James says. No argument here. After the game, he recounted the twists of the fourth quarter. Spain rallies, the U.S. gives itself some breathing room, another Spain comeback, more huge plays from the Americans. "I'm kind of crazy cause I'm watching...