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Europeans reacted furiously to President George W. Bush's decision to slap up to 30% tariffs on imported steel, claiming the move flies in the face of the Administration's admonitions to other countries to get with the free trade program. But European countries are far from blameless when it comes to liberalizing their own economies...
That guy does indeed merit a stinging backhand slap and an eyeful of hot coffee. But that doesn’t mean we have to back off entirely and have the IOP, the UC, and the editorial pages of a few publications have a monopoly on intellectual debate. It is, in fact, okay to talk about topics other than who got to second base with who last weekend and whether that disrespects some other person she’s “quasi-dating.” Just don’t make it a place to show off your...
...past six years, António Guterres, quit in December after his Socialist Party (PS) was trounced in municipal elections by its main rival, the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Guterres had two years left in his term but felt bound to step down after such a huge slap, the worst part of which was that the Social Democrats captured the City Hall in Lisbon for the first time since the 1974 revolution that ended decades of dictatorship. With general elections on March 17, many Portuguese commentators think Guterres stepped aside just in time for the country to have a chance...
...second period, junior winger Trevor Beaney took advantage of a Harvard line change to blast a slap shot past Grumet-Morris, making the score...
...Jiang, in the marketplace for a payoff from the U.S. to symbolize the new relationship, specifically wants to slap a cowboy hat on his greased-back hair and mosey down to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. The prospect has the U.S. State Department in fits. Russian leader Vladimir Putin made the trip, but only after Bush famously took measure of Putin's soul and called him a man he could trust. Yet Putin is the elected leader of a newly democratic nation. Jiang, for all his cooperation, presides over a communist country that has thousands of political prisoners. "Crawford...