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...That's not enough for European publishers, however. "This is not much more than a tired PR maneuver," says Christian Sprang of the German Booksellers and Publishers Association. "I don't believe Google is really interested in a compromise." At the E.U. hearings in Brussels, the representatives of publishing groups and governments from Italy, Spain and France have been expressing similar fears. According to the International Herald Tribune, a spokesman for the French Ministry of Culture repeated France's long-held stance that Google's book project was a risk to cultural diversity, speculating that Google might withhold access...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: European Publishers Fight Against Google Books | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...kicks off on June 11, with the final on July 11 in Johannesburg. South African winters are generally comfortable, but as this June's Confederations Cup showed, it can get frosty (28°?F, or -2°C) at night. Yet fans could be warmed by livelier games. Former German great Franz Beckenbauer has said, "The players like it. You can only play a fast game like this in the cool or cold weather." See pictures of Johannesburg preparing for the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter Doubleheader | 9/10/2009 | See Source »

...Although the report does not mention them by name, it clearly targets French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who have both said that Turkey can never be allowed to join the E.U. The two leaders came to power after the E.U.'s unanimous decision in 2004 to formally start accession talks with Turkey. But they instead talk of Turkey having a "privileged relationship" with the E.U. rather than full E.U. membership. (Read "Target Germany: A Second Front in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty Years On, Turkey Still Pines to Become European | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...Turkey report says E.U. leaders should start by challenging popular prejudice, instead of pandering to it. For an example of how popular opinion can change it includes a revealing statistic from the past: in 1954, 51% of French people told pollsters that they had a negative view of the German people and only 29% thought a Franco-German alliance would work. Now, both those countries are standing together in the way of a similar deal with Turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fifty Years On, Turkey Still Pines to Become European | 9/8/2009 | See Source »

...President Karzai's supporters committed widescale fraud in the Aug. 20 elections, and this, the shop-keeper says, could re-open ancient ethnic grudges between the Pashtuns, most of whom back Karzai, and the non-Pashtuns who are rallying around his main challenger, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. (Read about the German contingent in Afghanistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Return Visit to Kabul: Is Time Running Out? | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

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