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...than the athletes who were going for glory in Portugal. That's the E.U.'s conundrum. Why does this complex, ambitious multinational enterprise, which is meant to embody and guide Europe's common destiny, leave so many people so cold that only 45% bothered to vote in the European Parliament elections earlier this month - with many of them voting for parties that want to dismantle the Union itself? After a historic enlargement designed to heal the wounds of the cold war, why was voter turnout lowest in the East and Central European countries that just joined? And finally...
...states update antiquated laws. Police had to wait 14 months to smash the ice gang because Fijian law does not ban methamphetamine's ingredients, only the finished product. A new drug bill - increasing the top sentence for trafficking from eight years to life - was not ready to put to Parliament until the day of the raid...
...often that a strongman voluntarily loosens his grip on government, but in what one diplomat called an "astonishing" announcement last week, President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of the Maldives appeared to do exactly that. No longer would he run the executive, courts, police, parliament, army and media single-handedly, Gayoom proposed at a constitutional forum he convened in the capital, Mal?. Instead, there would be a Western-style separation of powers, with a Prime Minister, a Supreme Court and a strengthened legislature. Political parties would be allowed to flourish, and human rights would be safeguarded...
...DIED. ANTONIO SOUSA FRANCO, 61, leading Socialist candidate for Sunday's European Parliament election; of a heart attack suffered while campaigning; in Matosinhos, Portugal. As Portugal's Finance Minister, Sousa Franco helped usher in the nation's adoption of the euro...
...were ready at one point to support the government. But now, no way." UDUWE DHAMMALOKA, member of Sri Lanka's Buddhist monk-led National Heritage Party, after two fellow monks were injured in a brawl with ruling-party lawmakers on the floor of Parliament...