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...devastating proposal that must be fought tooth and nail," said Ian McDonald, chief executive of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean. The Commission's proposal must still be approved by E.U. governments, but Fischer Boel insisted there's no alternative. Any failure to act, she said, "would mean a slow and painful death for the European sugar sector." One consolation: European confectionery and biscuitmakers say the new prices will make them more competitive. How sweet it is. - By Peter Gumbel Getting Posh In Prague Thanks to the likes of Easyjet and Sky Europe, the flow of budget-conscious tourists into...
...which the cervix--the opening of the uterus--is not dilating fast enough and the baby is not descending. By midnight the next night, 23 hours after that first pinch, my wife had barely progressed, although she was having contractions every five minutes. We asked three different doctors how slow was too slow, and we got three different answers. Every time her obstetrician performed an exam, she would shake her head and say nothing had really changed. My wife was worried that the doctors would start using the c-word (for caesarean section). She was tired and cranky, and worst...
...contemporaries quickly contradicted his ideas, they were also slow to elevate him as an icon, even though he had all the ingredients to be one: an epic time (the split of a nation and a war over its future), bold ideas (union and liberty) and a violent death. One reason is that while people felt strongly the symbolic loss of a President through the nation's first assassination, few knew what to make of Lincoln as a man. Beneath the spectacular symbols of mourning--houses draped in black, endless ceremonies as his body was taken by train from Washington...
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. But he denied wavering: "When I have once taken a position, I have [never] retreated from it." After hearing Douglass's complaints, Lincoln assured him that black soldiers would eventually receive the same pay as white soldiers, and he promised to sign any promotion for blacks that the Secretary...
...Questions" Interview with race-car driver Danica Patrick [June 13] filled me with admiration for the young woman until I read the last question. Her answer to how she deals with ordinary traffic jams--"I hate slow drivers ... I have road rage every day"--left me disappointed and angry. She should leave her aggression at the track and not take it with her among normal, law-abiding drivers. I hope I never have to share a road with...