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...course, pursuing American interests and setting its own priorities whether the rest of the world goes along or not. And that could mean a reorientation in the Atlantic relationship. On a range of security and foreign-policy issues, the future seems to augur continental drift, if not an outright split. Though bound together by a military alliance and $1 billion in daily trade, Europe and the United States are increasingly marching to different beats?and there will be moments when the Bush Administration will pump up the volume. ?The new administration has experienced people at the top,? says...
...they gave up on the idea of defeating the nomination outright a long time...
Princeton University announced on Sunday that it will replace student loans with outright grants and scholarships, funding the change with its $8 billion endowment...
Alas, this easygoing tolerance suffered a heavy blow last week. In a parliamentary vote, Prime Minister Tony Blair's massed ranks of Labour Party deputies voted to ban the practice outright. It isn't the law yet--the House of Lords (another eccentric English institution) and the Queen (who was recently photographed strangling a wounded pheasant) must eventually give their consent. But the Queen and her Lordships have about as much clout in Cool Britannia as foxhunters and retired generals. Centuries of English rural loopiness will therefore shortly join the ranks of extinguished British institutions, like red telephone boxes, farthings...
...days leading up to the President's announcement, religious leaders appeared to be divided on the issue; some expressed worry that a governmental mantle could force their programs into a sort of purgatory of purpose - stripped of their outright religious intent but nonetheless considered less than legitimate by secular peers...