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...camp. "European democracy is on the march." Perhaps, but with every small step forward, the risk grows of a giant step back. To come into force, the constitution must be ratified by all 25 member states, nine of which will follow Spain by letting voters decide - and that could spell trouble. "The Dutch wanted to set an early referendum date before resentment grows too high," explains Dominique Reynie, a European affairs expert at Paris' Foundation of Political Science. "The French want to hold theirs first because the risk of a no vote in the Netherlands is greater and the probable...
Junior guard Jess Holsey attributed the dry spell to a few different factors...
...give up eight war-crimes suspects, although failure to deliver another key suspect, General Ante Gotovina, will likely lead to postponement of E.U. talks. Even Serbia recently turned over General Vladimir Lazarevic, suspected of war crimes in Kosovo. And the lure of E.U. membership is also casting its spell over former Soviet satellites such as Ukraine, where President Viktor Yushchenko is pushing a reform agenda meant to win candidate status as soon as possible. The E.U.'s power doesn't come across with shock and awe, but it is a potent force just the same...
...this job," she says. "I don't want to lose myself. I want to keep centered and remember to listen to what I really want." - By Mimi Murphy Sitting in a London bar, his black leather jacket rubbing up against the brown leather couch, Chiwetel Ejiofor casts a potent spell. But don't look at his hands. Because right now, the 27-year-old actor has hands like a girl - 2-cm-long nails brightly buffed and filed to an elegant curve. Ejiofor has just come from rehearsals for his latest project, The Kinky Boot Factory, a comedy in which...
...also did some good. For the first time in recent memory, snowpack in much of the West is running well ahead of average, and that signals relief for the drought-plagued region. Even so, says NOAA drought specialist Douglas LeComte, it's too early to proclaim the long dry spell completely over. Snow is still scant in the northern Rockies and the Pacific Northwest, he notes, adding, "It will take more than one wet winter to refill the reservoirs along the Colorado River." --By J. Madeleine Nash