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...Crimson (0-5, 0-2 EIWA) has yet to post a victory this season and has finished with mixed results in both tournaments it has entered thus far, including the prestigious Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational...
...doctor and a teacher, a son of the lower middle class who managed to ascend to the middle class," he says. "I know the poor communities, where more than 70% don't have the fundamental basics for human dignity. They live in a subhumanity." A keen environmental and social activist - he often gives free shows in deprived areas - Gil got his first taste of politics 15 years ago, when he was elected city councilor in Salvador for the Green Party. He enjoyed that experience, but never contemplated entering federal government because, he says, "politics is a martial...
...deal reflects the kind of "something for everyone" compromise that gives the Union a bad name. The Germans, with their federal structure and ambivalence toward national feeling, have always been committed - in principle, if not always in practice - to a strong European Commission. The French have been more keen to preserve national prerogatives, even to the point of sometimes treating the E.U. as a coat of mail to bulk up for national battle. As they approached this week's gala commemoration at Versailles of the 40th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty, which sealed formal amity between hereditary foes...
...peace agreement, right-wing parties are getting a boost in the polls. This shift to the right also colors the way left-wingers are fighting the election, which Sharon called after the Labor Party quit his "national unity" coalition. Even some dovish candidates, like Labor Party leader Mitzna, are keen to show they won't be saps for the Palestinians. Sharon's biggest advantage in this election is that he is the only party leader who actually fought in the desperate 1948 war and held key roles in all the existential struggles of Israel's early decades, when the underequipped...
...members of the Green Party, part of his ruling coalition, have warned that government support for an Iraq resolution would strain relations between rank-and-file Greens and party leaders, as well as relations between the Greens and Schröder's Social Democrats. Still, Schröder is keen to patch things up with Washington. He has agreed to allow U.S. forces to use bases in Germany and German airspace if war breaks out, and to provide troops to guard American installations in Germany, freeing U.S. soldiers for possible service in Iraq. Schröder needs American goodwill...