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There's some defiance, some insistence that the E.U. really matters. "Ten years ago, Africans had an American Dream," says one E.U. development worker. "Now they want to live in Europe. They see the power of our aid, our tolerance and our openness." But Europe's voters aren't so starstruck. To the contrary, the view of Brussels as a dream-addled dictatorship ? is sometimes fostered by national politicians and the press. "The E.U. is so often depicted as its extremes," says Margot Wallstrom, who in 2004 became the E.U.'s first Commissioner of Institutional Relations and Communications. "Either...
...with marble monuments engraved with life-size portraits of underworld figures known by sinister names like the Doctor, the Russian or the Godfather. Senior government officials have leaked files to mafia suspects and the interior minister himself had to resign after he was found consorting with two dubious businessmen. Ten Bulgarian MPs were stripped of immunity from prosecution last year because of alleged involvement in corruption...
Like athletes priming for the all-important championship elimination game, the United Steelworkers of America were girding themselves last week for a major performance. The 650,000-member union has declared June 21 Save American Industry and Jobs Day, and it hopes to turn out tens of thousands for major demonstrations. Rallies are scheduled in 100 cities, half of which will be linked by television satellite to the main conclave in Washington. The aim of all the excitement, says Steelworkers Vice President George Becker, is to protest the ''tide of imported goods that has threatened numerous American industries.'' Meanwhile...
...Bono and The Edge ripped out New Year's Day and Sunday, Bloody Sunday. The girls threw lingerie, the guys waved Irish flags, and everybody screamed wildly when Bono lifted girls onstage, hugged them and left them in puddles of tears. The politics took a quieter tack. A slick ten-minute film delivered Amnesty's message, and the musicians talked about their involvement to the press. A.I. believes in the simple--as Gabriel calls it, ''almost ridiculous''--idea of getting members to write postcards and letters to governments on behalf of specific prisoners. Sting says he finds the work...
...ticket deals to help fill seats on its Europe-bound planes. The airline is heavily promoting its new ''Alert'' security measures, which place armed guards and sniffer dogs in most Pan Am terminals. TWA is offering similar incentives, but last week the troubled airline, which has just weathered a ten-week strike by flight attendants, suffered another jolt with the departure of President Richard D. Pearson. Heartening as the rise in bookings was for airlines and travel agents, it was noteworthy that most of the increase came from individual American tourists, rather than from the group tours that traditionally make...