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...executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which, as Ground Zero's landlord, is just one of the 19 government bureaucracies with a say in rebuilding the World Trade Center. On Monday he gave New York governor David Paterson a progress report. The best thing to do, he said over 34 pages, is scrap the budget and timeline for the whole project...
...Speaking on French television Monday, Sarkozy admitted that "something isn't right" with the E.U., and there had been "errors" in the way it was set up. He warned that its citizens were losing faith in the project, adding, "We must therefore profoundly change our way of building Europe...
...everyone shares his optimism. Nancy Rios, an American windsurfer who was training in Qingdao last week, wrote on her blog Monday that she hoped Qingdao can "come up with a solution for the seaweed overgrowth and clean up the waters. I have my doubts that this will be taken care of, but I will just have to wait...
...neither Sarkozy nor anyone else has yet concocted a way out of the mess created by the Irish "no." His task will be all the more complicated after the obstreperous Polish President Lech Kaczynski announced Monday that he would not sign the Treaty, saying the document was pointless after Irish voters rejected it. Sarkozy and other leaders agreed last week to push the treaty forward in the 26 other member states, with an eye to the possibility that Ireland might eventually be compelled to put the question to the people again with more success...
Throughout the torturous official investigation into the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann in Portugal on May 3, 2007, her parents, Kate and Gerry, have learned of their status in the ordeal from anonymous leaks rather than through official channels. That precedent held again Monday night: unconfirmed reports from Portuguese media claim that police are closing the case and abandoning any plans to charge the McCanns with Madeleine's disappearance...