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...directive, aimed at creating a single market for the E.U.'s j8 trillion service sector. The law will allow a service provider to comply only with the laws of his or her home country when doing business in another E.U. member state. It was this plan that made "the Polish plumber" the symbol of France's fears at the time of the referendum last year, and which brought 60,000 protesters onto the streets of Brussels last March. Labor unions and their supporters see this week's vote as critical, and plan massive demonstrations outside the Strasbourg Parliament. Monica Frassoni...
...Arcy, the British TV producer who comes up with the idea of the reality show, is regularly described as a manic elf, with “spikey hair dyed royal blue on top with a pink tinge around the sides, gold earrings, and royal blue fingernail polish.” He is Perkins’ idea of a TV’s Austin Powers...
...first year that former Wall Street Journal editorial writer Bill McGurn has run the speech operation. But former speechwriting pointman Mike Gerson, now a counselor to the President and one of the architects of Bush?s ?compassionate conservatism,? has been brought in to help give the address added polish...
...light rays, a star could act as a sort of lens, focusing and magnifying the light of a more distant star passing behind it. In his original paper, Einstein doubted that such a thing would ever be seen- but he didn?t count on modern technology. Since 1997, a Polish-led team of astronomers has been using that technology in a project called OGLE, for Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (hence the planet?s name) to search for just such magnifications. They?ve seen hundreds, but one that happened last July was followed a short while later by a smaller flicker...
After six admirable but unadorable records, this trio of very earnest, very intense women from the Northwest decided to let loose their inner Led Zeppelin. The guitar playing is heavy, dexterous and hook laden, but the polish of the melodies never obscures their calling card--the raw, intermingled wails of Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein...