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...between "old" and "new" Europe, those countries that mostly support the U.S. and those that mostly don't. But although familiar wails emanate from certain quarters every time there's another setback for European unity, economic and political oneness isn't always possible - or desirable. Europe can survive and thrive with euroskeptics in the house. And if the Continent can't forge an identity without first agreeing on a common foreign policy, then it may never learn its true name. Like any battered family, Europe has learned how to hide behind half-truth and euphemism. It's a crucial survival...
...confident that the QRAC is a viable solution and that upcoming dialogue with administrators can create a dynamic facility in which the Dance Program may thrive,” Adrienne M. Minster ’04, a dancer and an advocate for increased dance space, wrote in an e-mail...
...told by agencies that her Puerto Rican looks were "too ethnic," Talisa Soto managed to break through, but only when photographers Bruce Weber and Steven Meisel insisted on working with her. The late 1980s and early '90s proved promising as a whole class of black models was able to thrive. Naomi Campbell was among the first models of any race to be anointed a "supermodel," and African-American models Beverly Peele, Karen Alexander, Tyra Banks and Veronica Webb all worked consistently. In 1992 Webb became the first black model to win a major cosmetics contract when she was signed...
...negative, and today's press is slammed for being scurrilous. But the most brutal of modern attack ads pale in comparison with the barrage of pamphlets in the 1764 Assembly election. Pennsylvania survived them, as did Franklin, who never considered suing. And America's democracy learned that it could thrive in an atmosphere of unrestrained, even intemperate, free expression. Indeed, its democracy was built on a foundation of unbridled free speech. In the centuries since then, the nations that have thrived, economically and politically, have been those, like America, that are most comfortable with the cacophony, and even occasional messiness...
...relative who lives at Lake Como full time.) The man was thrown out. Says the girl's mother: "Kids here are taught to talk about it. They immediately tell." But might the man have been emboldened because he saw the girl naked? As America's nudists continue to thrive, they will have to grapple with that question. They may have learned to see the naked body as mundane, but most people haven...