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...certain disappointment with the idea of Europe itself, a sense that the Continent's greatest postwar dream, West European integration, has lost momentum. Since the mid-'60s, the principal focus for that aspiration, the European Community, has been burdened by frequent bickering and haggling. Typical was the ploy carried off last month by Greece, which extracted subsidy increases for its farmers as a condition for agreeing to the enlargement of the Community from ten members to twelve, a measure planned to take effect in January...
...always denied. Then 30 former Saddam Hussein henchmen were mysteriously arrested by Iraq. After the group proved to include Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan al-Tikriti, a half-brother of Saddam's who was once a widely feared internal-security chief, Syria said it knew nothing about their capture. The ploy was supposed to buy some time, appeasing Washington without losing crucial support from hard-liners in his own Baath Party who oppose cooperation with the West. By the time Assad flew to Riyadh on Thursday, he had run out of allies. Backed by Egypt, Crown Prince Abdullah read Assad...
...this moment in our checkered cultural history, when buff young hotties eat cockroaches on Fear Factor just to get on TV, it's comforting to think about HUNTER S. THOMPSON, somebody for whom extreme behavior was neither a pose nor a ploy. Thompson, who committed suicide on Feb. 20 at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled A Savage Journey...
Appreciation At this moment in our checkered cultural history, when buff young hotties eat cockroaches on Fear Factor just to get on TV, it's comforting to think about HUNTER S. THOMPSON, somebody for whom extreme behavior was neither a pose nor a ploy. Thompson, who committed suicide on Feb. 20 at his home in Woody Creek, Colo., at the age of 67, was best known for his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, an account of a lost week he spent reporting from the gambling capital and succumbing to ranting, hallucinatory, pharmaceutical paranoia. The book is subtitled...
There has been substantial campus-wide outrage at Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s recent proposal to limit certain kinds of embryonic stem cell research. The governor’s proposal has alternately been derided as short-sighted, idiotic, or merely part of a cynical ploy to gain conservative credentials for a presidential...