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...wrecked by domestic politics. Even if the current member states agree in Brussels on a common position for financing enlargement, they still have to work out details with the candidate countries before the crucial December summit in Copenhagen. Though out of government, the LPF could still be a spoiler. Angry at their ejection, party leaders threw sand in the gears of parliament last week by declaring the entire state budget open for debate. That dissonant note may end up as the party's swan song, though. A recent poll found that if elections were held now, the LPF would retain...
...initially looked at the entire Egyptian empire," Cooper says. "But we quickly narrowed the focus to Tut's inner circle." Eventually, they winnowed the field to just four suspects: Maya, Tut's chief treasurer; Horemheb, his military commander; Ankhesenamen, his wife; and Ay, his Prime Minister. (Warning: plot spoiler ahead...
...almost four decades, Ralph Nader has been the scold of corporate America. Now the man and the moment have merged as America recoils at CEOs' behaving badly. TIME's Matthew Cooper spoke to Nader about greed, corruption and why the presidential spoiler won't even think about playing golf...
...Council is to be established, and a permanent pan-African peacekeeping force is planned for the future. If these had been in operation during the OAU days, it is argued, genocide and civil wars in countries like Sierra Leone, Angola and Rwanda might have been avoided. The number one spoiler in the African Union and the factor that probably gives Western observers the greatest cause for concern is Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. Already smarting at the way his dream of a "United States of Africa" - with himself as President - was upstaged by the A.U.'s formation, Gaddafi was also dismayed...
...October, Perseus will publish "Nader: Crusader, Spoiler, Icon" by Justin Martin. According to the publisher, "For this probing biography, the first since 1975, Justin Martin spoke with Nader along with more than 300 people, including close associates, old friends, and family. The result is a sweeping portrait, covering Nader's small-town Connecticut boyhood, his days at Harvard law, the David-and-Goliath battle with GM that launched him into the spotlight, and colorful encounters with characters as varied as Albert Einstein, Gloria Steinem, Fidel Castro, Phil Donahue, Susan Sarandon, Upton Sinclair and Al Gore. The climax of this extraordinary...