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Portugal's official 2001 budget deficit was 2.2%, enough to stir the ire of the European Commission. Durão Barroso says wryly that this was "only a slight variation of 100%" on the government's 1.1% prediction and that it's probably higher because of trick accounting. He won't say where he would wield the ax but claims he will be tough on the state-funded institutions that grow around Portuguese governments like suckerfish around the mouth of a whale. "There were 130 of these six years ago," he says. "The Guterres government added another 78. Most...
...White House officials, and now that Bush has rattled the cups, the plain-spoken Texan has to prove he isn't quietly moving bombers into place. So throughout his six day jaunt Bush never whispered the controversial "bloody term," as Colin Powell calls it, and he caused more stir with his diplomatic tones than his war cries. The apparent course change left nervous allies wondering whether Bush was on an Asian holiday, deferring to his temporary hosts, or whether his appeals to diplomatic understanding represented a nuanced approach to the second phase of his war on terrorism...
Nearly 60 years after the end of World War II, the capacity of that conflict to stir up strong feelings shows little sign of ebbing. It was a clear-cut struggle against evil. A new take on the nature of that evil is explored in an absorbing, meticulously-researched account of how the 1943-55 quasi-fascist regime led by Argentine dictator Juan Perón spirited thousands of wanted war criminals from Europe. The author of The Real Odessa (Granta, 382 pages), Buenos Aires journalist and TIME contributor Uki Goñi, manages to arouse a new sense...
...difference with a modest tariff, but both the union and the manufacturers insist that a half-measure won't suffice. One sign that Bush takes the issue seriously: He added it to Vice President Dick Cheney's portfolio. The steelworkers will hold a rally this week in Washington to stir public sympathy for their cause. If the President delivers, says Bill Klinefelter of the historically Democratic steelworkers union, "The union will certainly give credit where credit is due." Translation: tariffs now will mean votes later...
...Lovell House residents Jamal King ’05 and Silas P. Silas ’05 have caused quite a stir here at Harvard, what with their kidnapping of the Dooster statue, crashing their car into the Harvard statue while hotboxing and delivering pot brownies to uptight Dean Cain. Asked for comment, Jamal indicated that he came to Harvard looking to “cultivate [his] herbals?...