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The E.U. constitution is dead, but it would be fatal for Europe if Brussels continued with business as usual. We don't need another constitutional convention with myriad special interests complicating the process. Let's have each member state provide a representative to a committee to produce a draft constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 7/4/2005 | See Source »

When Lincoln saw Douglass, he rose to greet him. "Mr. Douglass, I know you; I have read about you ... Sit down, I am glad to see you." He referred to Douglass's attack on his "tardy, hesitating, vacillating policy" and acknowledged that at times he might seem slow to act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Across the Great Divide | 6/26/2005 | See Source »

Aquino's consensus-building style was also apparent during a trip to Camp Aguinaldo, the military compound that serves as headquarters for the armed forces. There she met with about three dozen disgruntled lieutenant colonels in the air force. They complained that Aquino, who had promised to do away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Taking Her Own Sweet Time | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Atop the dismal failure rate, an additional 20% of those originally offered the test refused to take it, most for fear of revealing their illiteracy. From these results, Barnes projects that 17 million to 21 million adults in the U.S. cannot read. And this is only some of the bad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Losing the War of Letters | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

The Turkey Shoot. More than $4 million was targeted for the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. The organization, dating to the time when militias were essential to national security, now does little more than conduct shooting matches and conventions of gun buffs. Congress has been trying to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress's Hidden Goodies | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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