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Perhaps it was too easy. Success fueled exaggerated visions of a grand, institutionalized United Europe. There was talk of a common flag, of joint Olympic sports teams, but nationalism stayed alive. In 1966, under severe pressure from French President Charles de Gaulle, the Community adopted a compromise allowing a partner country to cast a veto whenever it felt that a "vital national interest" was involved. Since then, the veto threat has been invoked several times on issues like farm prices and deregulation, sometimes slowing Community progress to a crawl. De Gaulle also pulled French forces out of NATO'S integrated...
...eroded more pan-European illusions. In 1971 France dropped its longstanding opposition to British membership in the Community, and Britain, along with Ireland and Denmark, formally joined in 1973. The expansion of a formerly tightly knit group offered enlarged economic possibilities, but also hampered cohesion. The original spirit of joint sacrifice splintered in frequent acrimony, especially after the two oil-price shocks of the decade weakened West European economies. By the early '80s, the once solid NATO consensus on defense also came under strain as a result of the drawn-out missile-deployment drama...
...video review, and I have seen more than a few videos overcome atrocious songs. Unfortunately, the plot of this video centers around—you’ll never guess—a bad Madonna cover-band wooing 50 Cent’s bodyguards at a seedy Cincinnati strip joint. No joke...
Junior Cara Woodard has mended a banged-up left knee, though she still wears and large and cumbersome brace on the joint for precautionary reasons...
Laurence H.S. Coderre ’07, a joint Music and East Asian Studies concentrator, said she is excited for the contributions Ma will make to the Harvard curriculum and hopes that the Silk Road Project will provide an opportunity to study what she said was a somewhat neglected topic within the Music and East Asian Studies departments at Harvard...