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...Western Europe's plane ride toward market unity in 1992 has finally reached cruising speed, that is due in large measure to the skillful maneuvering performed by the craft's chief pilot, Jacques Delors. It was the shrewd but sometimes prickly Frenchman, shortly after he became the European Commission's President in 1985, who selected 1992 as the target date for eliminating trade barriers among the Community's twelve members. And it was Delors, 64, who conducted a nonstop p.r. campaign on behalf of the plan. His efforts have earned him the nickname "Mr. Europe" and comparisons to the late...
...often hear that there is just one Europe," Lech Walesa told his hosts after arriving in West Germany last week to seek financial support for Poland's own version of perestroika. "Well, I just looked out the window from the plane, and there is in fact just one Europe." From aloft the Solidarity leader could not, of course, see the very real partition of Europe into East and West. Nor could he detect the many barriers that still separate the countries of Western Europe. But what Walesa did discern is that Europe is changing fast: ideological divisions are disappearing, borders...
About a year ago, Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 stepped off a plane in Egypt to begin a year's stint at the American University of Cairo, putting thousands of miles between her and the discrimination complaint she instigated against one of Cambridge's nine all-male final clubs...
About a year ago, Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 stepped off a plane in Egypt to begin a year's stint at the American University of Cairo, putting thousands of miles between her and the discrimination complaint she instigated against one of Cambridge's nine all-male final clubs...
About a year ago, Lisa J. Schkolnick '88 stepped off a plane in Egypt to begin a year's stint at the American University of Cairo, getting thousands of miles away from the discrimination complaint she instigated against one of Cambridge's nine all-male final clubs...