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...value independently." So how to proceed? Beyond the E.U.'s creeping borders, rapid developments might make a single, competitive market for energy more a must than a maybe for everyone. "We can't deal with globalization if we've got 25 mini energy markets," European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said last week. "Even the largest member states are too small when we talk about globalization and energy." For the Commissioners, capital cities and consumers helping to map the route toward a more open market, that perspective ought to keep minds occupied for some time to come...
...cartoons. Although the Western media believe that freedom of expression is a right, no rights are lost when one respects another's sensitivities. The issue is not the behavior of Islamic fanatics but our insistence on seeing the world the way we want to, not as others see it. Manuel Arboleda Manila, the Philippines...
...José Manuel Carreño, 37, A.B.T. When Carreño decamped from Cuba in 1990, the move was almost unprecedented. "I'm kind of a pioneer," he says. He set a high standard for other expatriates to follow. Identified mostly with princely, heroic roles in "tutu ballets" like La Bayadère and Don Quixote, he won Dance Magazine's 2004 award for contributions to dance, the first Cuban to do so since Alonso in 1958. The citation said, "He thrills audiences with his powerful leaps and glorious pirouettes, and breaks their hearts with his vulnerability...
According to a poll conducted earlier this month by the Mexican newspaper Reforma, Calderón is trailing closely behind former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, his main opponent, by a seven percent margin...
...flouting Brussels' rules on deficit spending, mostly with impunity. Governments have generally ignored or outright rejected the Commission's recommendations for making Europe "the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world" by 2010. And sometimes, the issues take on a personal edge. When José Manuel Barroso last month became the first European Commission President ever to address the French National Assembly, many Socialists and Communists booed and heckled. "Europe has more need for builders today than for accountants," Jean-Marc Ayrault, head of the Socialist deputies - many of whom believe Barroso worships the false gods...