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Mihaela Pacurar ’06 didn’t really have a choice—the flight from Boston to her home in Cluj, Romania is 13 hours long. On Thursday, she got her share of turkey in the Quincy dining hall, at a “festive lunch that was called Thanksgiving dinner, but was really just a late lunch,” she said...
...increased their role in the workforce and started having babies later, that figure has fallen to 1.5 last year. In the newer member states of Central and Eastern Europe, the drop-off has been even deeper. That means that the population of the E.U. - plus candidate countries Bulgaria and Romania, expected to join by 2007 - could drop from 482 million today to 454 million by 2050. In the same period, the E.U.'s working age population is projected to drop by 18% while the number of those aged 65 or more will soar by 60%. Hospital maternity wards already stand...
...History Lesson ROMANIA President Ion Iliescu acknowledged his country's responsibility for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews and Roma during World War II. His comments came after he received a report on the Holocaust in Romania from an international commission headed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel...
That this dream of Europe is different than its predecessors was signaled by the presence of leaders from Turkey, Romania and Bulgaria, all countries which have started EU accession negotiations. The three politicians also signed part of the document. “A united Europe is not only living up to its potential, it is also excluding war as a political means, since motives to conquer foreign territories will simply not exist in a united Europe,” said Croatian President Stipe Mesic the day after the event. Mesic, in Rome with observer status, hopes that his country will...
...grand vision, though not without risk. In a series of shrewd moves that netted him an estimated $22 billion fortune and the nickname "the Carnegie of Calcutta," Mittal, 54, has spent much of his career buying run-down steel facilities in far-flung locations like Romania and Kazakhstan and returning them to profitability. But ISG is a different animal. It was formed in 2002 from the guts of the bankrupt LTV steel business. Under the watchful eye of Ross, the firm, which employs 15,000 people, grew into one of the U.S.'s major steel producers by acquiring money-losers...