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...while Bulgaria showed some reformist zeal in the run-up to joining the European club, momentum quickly slipped once Sofia was in, despite repeated warnings from Commission officials that lack of progress could hurt funding. This proves that "E.U. membership is no magic bullet, " says Diana Kovatcheva, Bulgarian head of anti-corruption group Transparency International. "The lack of administrative and management capacity and political will to undertake substantive anti-corruption measures hamper their success and enforcement." In the past, wayward new members have avoided punishment because Brussels' attention has slipped. The Commission's new tougher approach will establish whether punishment...
...properly reported to the IRS. (It is legal to have an offshore account; hiding it is the no-no.) On Thursday the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations will hold a hearing on how banks in offshore tax havens may be helping Americans evade taxes. The hearing adds momentum to efforts already under way at the IRS and Department of Justice, and by authorities in a number of other countries, including France, Germany...
...ruled in favor of Massachusetts, issuing a majority opinion that the EPA did have the right to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, and that under the Clean Air Act, it needed to do so. That decision helped push the Bush Administration, kicking and screaming, toward climate change action, and provided momentum for individual states like California looking to pass their own carbon caps...
...there are good reasons to think WALL-E may be an Obamaesque trailblazer. Since Toy Story in 1995, Pixar has steadily built momentum and begun collecting Oscar nominations in more and more categories. Last year's Ratatouille set a record with five, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Score...
...late in the fifth set of Rafael Nadal's five-set victory over Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final on Sunday - a match that took over seven hours to complete, included two rain delays, featured multiple changes of momentum, and is already being discussed as potentially the greatest tennis match ever played - when the middle-aged couple sitting next to me turned to each other between points and suddenly held hands in that heightened way that you see in movies of plane crashes. "I love you," the man said with an intensity he seemed not to have expressed for some...