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...director of the Centre for European Reform in London, says that "the security threats applying to each side of the Atlantic are increasingly varied, and not of high salience to the other. The Americans worry about missiles raining down from rogue states. The European governing classes worry about the mess they made of the Balkans in the '90s and want to do better in the future. Neither side really accepts the other's view." But the gulf between them is more fundamental than security disputes alone...
...David Yelland, editor of the aforementioned tabloid. Although the Branson bid promised to improve the games and deliver more money to charity, the commission questioned whether Branson really had the stuff to make sure it all came off. Yelland suspects that with Westminster still reeling from the Millennium Dome mess, the risk was just too great. "You can bugger up the Dome and win the election," he says. "You bugger up the lottery, and you're really in trouble...
...result is clear as sludge on Paris' notoriously befouled sidewalks, whose doo-slickened surfaces cause 650 hospitalizations a year and rank as Parisians' third-biggest gripe about their city. Tourists also marvel at the mess, a situation that in part shaped Cho's form of protest. "I wanted it to be an international message everyone would understand," says he. "I began using French flags to suggest we Parisians are so proud of our dog poop that we display it all over our sidewalks. I think visitors and residents alike get the irony of the message...
...media may not be able to call an election correctly, but when it comes to the really important things, we don't mess around. Untold hours of due diligence the past few weeks indicated that SEAN (PUFFY) COMBS and Jennifer Lopez were no longer together. The couple issued denials, but finally Combs admitted what those of us in the fourth estate already knew. "He and his love Jennifer Lopez have, in fact, broken up," read a statement released by a Puffy publicist on--ouch!--Valentine's Day. It wasn't exactly Combs' best week. In addition to losing Lopez...
...best way to remove dust from carved chair legs is with a Q-Tip. More than dreading a world in which it is considered O.K. to leave globs of toothpaste to dry in the sink, I fear the repercussions of never learning to be accountable for your own mess. Call me paranoid, but I started to fear that children who never feel the need to make their own bed would grow into adults who don't feel responsible for making their own happiness...