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...final polish on his draft European Union constitution last week, former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing suggested a new motto for Europe: united in diversity. Some day, maybe. But not this summer. divided in anger would be more like it, or perhaps take your beach and shove it. Just when the E.U. is trying to forge a coherent identity, national pride is threatening to swamp the whole enterprise as the leaders of two of the Union's biggest members jump headlong into the summer silly season. It was bad enough when Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi compared...
...salvation through good works. That led him to make the link between private virtue and civic virtue and to suspect, based on the meager evidence he could muster about God's will, that these earthly virtues were linked to heavenly ones as well. As he put it in the motto for the library he founded, "To pour forth benefits for the common good is divine...
...iPod-powered boom box. And Griffin developed a prototype infrared gimmick that allows the iPod to double as a TV remote control--but Apple refused to let Griffin access its top-secret operating system for this purpose. Let's hope Steve Jobs adopts the attitude of my girlfriend, whose motto is "Don't agonize; accessorize...
Harvard is a place in which the motto veritas is strewn upon banners, etched within century-old cement and placed upon all hall corridors. The search for veritas is of utmost importance and cannot and should not be relegated to a subordinate position. But the question that exists is whose veritas is heard and acknowledged? Harvard, of all academic institutions, has a responsibility and an intellectual obligation to adhere to this timeless motto that inspires and seduces so many enthusiastic minds...
...Bark started six years ago as a newsletter to fight for a leash-free park in Berkeley, Calif., but it has turned into the New Yorker for dog lovers. With 75,000 subscribers and the motto "Dog is my co-pilot," the magazine has featured writers such as Amy Tan, Peter Mayle and Lynda Barry, and has run a long article on canine blood banks and a regular column on animal behavior called "Both Ends of the Leash." And then there's the four-year-old Animal Fair, a lifestyle magazine that claims a circulation...