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...according to Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London. Most of them are doing peacekeeping work under the NATO banner. "We think it's better to have NATO than ephemeral coalitions," Alliot-Marie told TIME on the way home from her visit. "NATO has a habit of working together, and because we believe in it we want to see it continue." But continue to what end? Alliot-Marie correctly notes that "crises are going to multiply," but France and the U.S. remain on a collision course over American-led efforts to give the alliance a direct...
...film. "To show Hitler as a benevolent old man and not mention the Holocaust or the millions of people who became victims of the war - this is a real danger." Downfall producer Bernd Eichinger, who also wrote the screenplay, argues that a bigger danger was Germany's habit of seeing Hitler as a one-dimensional madman - because it lets other Germans off the hook. "He turned almost the whole population of the country into his followers," says Eichinger. "I believe that in every one of us there is something very, very dangerous. Every human being has a side that...
...promote her new novel, but she didn't pack enough clothes before leaving Glasgow, the shops on Oxford Street are expensive and don't open before 10 a.m., and at 39, Kennedy's serious about the business of writing - "I lie for a living" - while interviewers have a bad habit of confusing book and author. Which could be embarrassing, since Paradise (Jonathan Cape; 344 pages) is written from within the tortured mind of a Scottish woman who's almost 40, with a drinking problem so severe she can't remember the previous night's sexual encounter. "Fiction is fiction," says...
...link has been widely questioned: do busts make any difference on the street? Many illicit drug experts also argue that treatment is more effective than law enforcement efforts, and that attempts to push up the price by cutting supply may force addicts into more crime to fund their habit. But in what it claims is the first study of its kind, the ANU has found that law enforcement efforts "do, in fact, influence the supply of illicit drugs reaching the community and that increased funding for law enforcement will result in further decreases in supply." Until now, it says, support...
...political capital gained by the situation, I don’t know if the University and the city would have been convinced,” Mahan said. “The city and the University were not initially for it. The University does not want to get in the habit of providing what they perceive as public goods...