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...debate in the ongoing Convention on the Future of Europe over the next few months, addresses some major faults in the E.U.'s current scheme. Too often in the past, six months in the presidency just hasn't been enough to forge compromises among 15 member states on a raft of complicated issues like immigration or economic policy. Getting to yes in that time after 10 new members join in 2004 would require a diplomatic sprint no one could carry off. What's more, the appeal of getting six months in the driver's seat flattens considerably when the chance...
...dirt there is, flying all over London, kicked up by papers whose checks he rejected. The revenge frenzy threw off a raft of titillating revelations: Burrell sneaked Diana's lovers into Kensington Palace in the trunk of his car; he drove her around London at night so she could give away money to prostitutes; she once greeted her lover Hasnat Khan wearing only a fur coat and jewels; she bought pregnancy tests in drugstores for fun; Prince Philip, the Queen's husband, was said to have written Diana calling her a "trollop." Most of this did not really change what...
...seen three major oil disasters since 1976. Toja's depressed mood matched that of his neighbors, among them the owners of three small boats who had gone out to fish beyond the exclusion zone. There, in the dark, the men were terrified to find themselves surrounded by "a raft of a gluey substance that glistened in the moonlight," says one of the fishermen, Manuel Toja. "It was so thick we felt we were stuck in it." Back in port - with their nets, buoys and lobster traps ruined by oil - their meager catch was rejected by the health authorities. While waves...
...deals with Democrats and ditch pet projects in order to get things done. "The President asked for the Senate, and he's got it," says Reid. "He can no longer blame us if something doesn't go right." House Republican leaders say they plan to send a raft of Bush's favorite bills, which they passed early in his term, back to the G.O.P.-controlled Senate. While popular with conservatives, some of the items on that list--a ban on partial-birth abortions and an energy package that includes drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, for example--remain...
...there, and last month work began on a $50 million "cyber city" to attract new software and IT companies. The government promises low taxes, duty-free imports of IT equipment and automatic residency for anyone who invests more than $500,000 in the industry. It is also passing a raft of laws to protect and regulate the sector. And a recently completed undersea fiber-optic cable from Portugal along the west coast of Africa to India and Malaysia via Mauritius will increase the country's bandwidth by a factor of 4,000. Says Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth: "Our physical isolation...