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...Perhaps one day this event will rank in importance alongside the 1957 ceremony. But last week, Rome seemed like a strange place to sign a treaty clarifying relations among E.U. institutions (it has yet to be ratified by any member state and faces long odds in some), because those relations have been upended thanks to Berlusconi's nomination of conservative Catholic Rocco Buttiglione as Italy's member of the European Commission, the E.U.'s executive body. Commission President?designate José Manuel Dur?o Barroso had tapped Buttiglione for the Justice, Freedom and Security post, which includes responsibility for antidiscrimination...
Students nationwide, as reflected in the IOP poll, rank the economy as the most important issue, with Iraq a close second. Twenty-five percent of students in the national poll ranked education as one of the top two issues in the election, compared to only 11 percent of Harvard students...
...SENTENCED. Staff Sergeant IVAN L. FREDERICK II, 38, highest-ranking U.S. Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in jail by a court-martial; at Camp Victory in western Baghdad. His sentence also includes a reduction in rank to private, a forfeiture of pay and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, a corrections officer in civilian life, is one of seven charged in the scandal and the third to be convicted; his sentence is the longest to date...
...young hedonist in Thatcherite London, Man Booker panel chairman Chris Smith said, "The fact it can be considered as a perfectly valid part of contemporary fiction without regarding [gay relationships] as unique shows how much times have changed." SENTENCED. STAFF SGT. IVAN L. FREDERICK II, 38, highest ranking U.S. Army reservist accused in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal; to eight years in prison; at a court martial in Baghdad. The sentence also includes a reduction in rank, to private; a forfeiture of pay; and a dishonorable discharge. Frederick, who pleaded guilty to five of eight charges, is one of seven...
...were interested in how colleges would rank if you took a more student-based approach,” Avery said...