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...underwhelms on other big issues. "When it comes to pressing international problems like Afghanistan, Pakistan or North Korea, the E.U. is either largely invisible or absent," wrote Grant in his essay, provocatively titled "Is Europe Doomed to Fail as a Power?" Lucio Caracciolo, editor of Limes, one of Italy's leading foreign policy magazines, says the problem is a Cold War hangover. The post-World War II period was a golden age for Western Europe, a time of reconstruction under the U.S. security umbrella, he argues. When it ended, Europe went into shock. "We're in denial," Caracciolo says...
...work harder to ease tensions in its sphere of interest - ensuring that Bosnia does not slip back into conflict, working closely with Turkey to ensure its enormous potential for encouraging a new prosperity to Europe's East is realized, reaching out in a true partnership to the nations of North Africa - another good Sarkozy idea - to see if they can be brought within the European zone of prosperity. Doing nothing, giving in to inertia, will win the E.U. few friends. "An unsentimental President Obama has already lost patience with a Europe lacking coherence and purpose," according to the European Council...
...Greece's businesses, this new math is a challenge to growth. Borrowing costs are heading north, and with the country's banks in a noose because of their holdings of Greek debt, credit is tight. New projects, expansion plans and investments have been put on hold, say executives. MLS's Kamatakis, for example, admits he's had to slow down plans to expand into Western Europe. "Everything is frozen," says financier Paul Papadopoulos. "It's a wait-and-see scenario...
...original version of this article misstated that Smith County, Texas is about 90 miles north of Dallas. It is, in fact, about 90 miles east-southeast of Dallas...
While the weather in Cambridge took a turn for the warmer this weekend, members of the Harvard nordic ski team headed north to Rangeley, Maine for one last race in the snow—a 50k-freestyle race at TD Bank Rangeley Lake Loppet...