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...warn, membership talks may be suspended. Last week, plans to hold a summit on the issue had to be abandoned because of an unwillingness to compromise by all sides. The E.U.'s Commissioner for Enlargement, Olli Rehn, has called the prospect of breaking off membership talks with Turkey a "train wreck" whose consequences are "so negative I don't care to think of them." He'd better start thinking, because opinions are hardening on the island. Since entering the E.U., attitudes among Greek Cypriot politicians to Turkish Cypriots' claims to govern the north seem to have sharpened. Meanwhile, Turkish Cypriot...
...corruption in hopes he can help. When one of his exposés appears in print, Dan learns how perilous journalism can be. He also discovers, appropriately for modern China, that another reporter has pirated his intellectual property, swiping his name and bogus website to climb onto the gravy train. Then Dan takes one risk too many by sneaking Little Plum into a banquet, just so she can experience delights like sea cucumber and "minced pigeon breasts with mashed tofu molded into tiny snowballs, sprinkled with tiny tender green scallion flakes." Writes Yan: "He can't bear to think...
...University Art Museums, rather than a student group, according to the museums’ Director of Membership and Annual Giving Steven D. Horsch. “It is an effort to engage the entire student body,” Horsch said. Spies-Gans said that her organization plans to train a group of student docents by next year. “The goal is to have students talking to students,” Spies-Gans said. “We want to emphasize that it can be the students’ museum...
...Yahtzee.” Surely you’ve heard the term by now—several cartoonists give birth to the same idea, usually all at once. Your cartoonist seems to have jumped on board a slow train to Yahtzee-ville with her depiction of Kim’s mushroom cloud hair...
...Cardona's physical well-being was not the only issue of concern connected to his aborted transfer to Iraq. According to former senior U.S. military officers and others interviewed by TIME, sending a convicted abuser back to Iraq to train local police would have sent the wrong signal at a time when the U.S. is trying to bolster the beleaguered government in Baghdad, where the horrors of Abu Ghraib are far from forgotten. "If news of this deployment is accurate, it represents appallingly bad judgment," says retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who commanded a division in the first Gulf...