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...losers. Isabelle Kronawitter, an economist at HVB Bank in Munich, calculates that if the court upholds the decision and makes it retroactive, it could cost the German government as much as j30 billion. That's a whopping 1.5% of Germany's gross domestic product, an amount that Berlin can ill afford at a time of squeezed budgets. At the Luxembourg hearing, the German government argued that the court should take into account the potentially huge budgetary repercussions. But Poiares Maduro explicitly...
...extreme of scenarios—conspire to sink Saturday like a lead balloon. It is perhaps no wonder then that McEwan was testy at his reading, snapping at the audience’s admittedly fatuous questions and reading a lengthy segment spanning each of the novel’s ill-fitting strands as if in defiance. Everybody fails at times, and McEwan has a phenomenal talent which here pokes through all too rarely. To ignore his failure here is to do a disservice to the fantastic work he has done in the past...
...1960s commune of which Jack was a part, Rose has had very little contact with the world besides her father and the man who delivers her flowers (she has a deep interest in planting and studying botany). She is perfectly satisfied with this situation, but when her father becomes ill and they realize that he is dying, Jack decides to bring home his lover (Catherine Keener, Being John Malkovich) and her two sons to live with them...
Holden says the flavor’s departure was a long time coming. Other flavors recently put out to pasture include Ben & Jerry’s ill-fated low-carb line “Carb Karma...
...last night’s panel event, Romeo Dallaire, a retired Canadian general who led the ill-fated UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in 1994, endorsed GIF’s decision to abstain from supporting weapons purchases. He said that millions of illicit small arms are already circulating in the developing world. “They are not void of weapon systems,” said Dallaire, a fellow at Harvard’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, which sponsored last night’s event. “They are void of trucks. They are void...