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...establish how Europe would be run, create the offices of Foreign Minister and European President and in general foster a greater sense of allegiance to the union. The E.U. is still a going concern, yet its legitimacy has been called into question. "It's a fundamental revolution," says Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform in London. "Nothing has changed, but everything has changed." Where does Europe go from here...
...hand mirror or a key chain. Continental's U.S. transcontinental first-class passengers have received fragrances by Prada and Ghirardelli chocolates. Fliers in United's U.S transcontinental and U.S.-Japan premium classes have been treated to bags containing at least 1,000 dollars' worth of goodies, including Elizabeth Grant luxury toiletries and advance-reading copies of books like Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. "When [customers] hear that the bags will be given out on certain flights, they'll change their reservations to get on those flights," says Robin Urbanski, a United representative. At the end of this month, United...
Walter Willett, who chairs the SPH nutrition department, wrote in an e-mail that the benefits of the Ellison grant for SPH will depend on how the global health monitoring project is structured...
...court for prosecution. But Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says that, short of "irrefutable evidence" that Taylor has committed crimes from Nigeria, he will extradite Taylor only to Liberia. "The President keeps asking to see the evidence," says Obasanjo spokeswoman Remi Oyo, who points out that Nigeria agreed to grant Taylor asylum under pressure from Western nations. "All we get is statements and soundbites on television. But we need to see evidence, or we will not be seen as credible and honorable members of the international community." Nigeria may have a point, but don't expect the war-crimes tribunal...
...comic flair, good with the voices and the pop culture, always ready with a dash of bittersweet pathos-but he's not generally thought of as swinging a heavy bat, intellectually speaking. There's a reason his books get turned into movies starring John Cusack (High Fidelity) and Hugh Grant (About a Boy) and not Sean Penn and Russell Crowe...