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...March 27 Arab League summit in Beirut. That?s not going to happen while bombs are going off in Israel, Israeli tanks are rumbling through Palestinian refugee camps and Arafat is prevented from even traveling to Beirut. As General Zinni knows from experience, best-case scenarios seldom pan out in the Middle East...
Brussels may be the headquarters of the European Union, but Strasbourg is the nearest thing Europe has to a true capital. For over half a century Strasbourg has been the site of the Council of Europe, a pan-regional human rights body linking 43 countries from the Urals to the Atlantic. It is also one of the European Parliament's three homes, and houses the European Court of Human Rights and a host of other international bodies...
Difficult to tell. Even with national stolen IMEI databases on the way, a person who steals a phone in France could probably still use it - with a different sim card but the same IMEI number - in Germany, at least until a pan-European database for stolen IMEIs is constructed. Or until the rightful owners chance upon their property again - perhaps during a late-night visit to a cell-phone shop in Prague...
...same revenue-reduction fate could befall other sports-rights agencies. In Formula One, the fans seem to have sped away: viewing numbers for the motor sport have dropped about 5% since 1999. And both Greg Dyke, head of Britain's bbc, and Gerhard Aigner of uefa, which runs pan-European football competitions like the Champions' League, wondered whether the audience appetite for televised football had peaked...
...could find themselves fighting? The U.S. and Europe, says Hanson. He points ominously to "the specter of a pan-European state [that] seems to create unity among its members by collective antagonism and envy of the United States...