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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Initially conceived to forge a new relationship between the European Union and six former Soviet republics, the May 7 summit launching the E.U.'s Eastern Partnerships accord wound up more like the first date from hell. Instead of feeling the welcoming embrace the program had promised, representatives from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine instead got a European straight-arm designed to keep them at a safe distance. Indeed, given the manner in which the courtship has begun, some observers now wonder whether any of the parties involved can ever hope to make beautiful music together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E.U. Backtracks on its Eastern European Partners | 5/11/2009 | See Source »

...Vuuren’s self-congratulatory Nebraska-bashing may indicate the group’s sincere hopes of effecting positive change, but such a vision also embodies the elitist idealism and lackluster social theory that characterizes the campaign. In this affair, the old adage rings true: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Van Vuuren and his colleagues have fashioned themselves as warriors of gender equality while failing to consider what they’re promoting—essentially, a program that misrepresents the reality of modern sexual violence and reduces women to passive victims...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: Talk We Don’t Need | 5/7/2009 | See Source »

...musician in south Mumbai who says he has become politically active for the first time in his life because of "26/11." What still troubles him isn't the motivation of the terrorists. Instead, he wonders, "How could this happen? What is our system doing? How the hell did it take four days for this to be resolved?" he says. "That is what is appalling. How can we get someone in power that can make something happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How India's Young and Restless Are Changing Its Politics | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...sociologist Raul Leis says the red devils represent "popular expression and color" of individual ownership in a privatized transportation system. However, he continues, with time the bus system has fallen into the "vice" of concentrated ownership and inefficient service. Today, Leis says, the red devils represent "a form of hell" that pose more of a hazard than public service to the 800,000 low-income Panamanians who depend on them every day for a ride to work or school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Panama City Tries to Exorcise Its Red Devils | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...It’s not until Oppenheimer and history return to view that Hell makes sense, with a line slyly borrowed and modified from Bertolt Brecht’s “Life of Galileo”: “August 6, 1945: Heaven abolished.”The show doesn’t so much end as dissolve, which is meant as praise. Too often artists use History to de-fang the past—think “Schindler’s List”—but Videt finds resonance in events which remain indeterminate, unknown...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Space Between' Is Visual Success | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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