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...Europeans will scream," a Bush administration official told TIME last week. "But coming from them, it's a little hard to take." As U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick, heretofore regarded as one of the Bush team's great internationalists, pointed out, the Europeans subsidized their steel industry to the tune of $50 billion over the past 30 years...
...Netherlands ought to be one of the toughest places in Europe for the far right to get a toehold. Prosperous and with low unemployment, tolerant and proudly multicultural, the country has long been a place where the politicians fine-tune consensus in long, well-behaved coalition talks. But into that idyll last week crashed Pim Fortuyn, 54, who rode an unapologetically anti-immigration platform to a substantial victory in local elections in Rotterdam, the country's second city, where many of the country's 800,000 Muslims live. His local party, Livable Rotterdam, won 17 out of the 45 seats...
...villages are as modern-minded as Dublin or London. There is a lot of “post-” to the small lakeside village of By the Lake: post-World War II, post-migration, post-soccer riots, post-Irish Republican Army. It is a place where grandparents tune into “Blind Date” but do not have telephones; where combine machines ease the labor of the summer hay harvest; and where a sheep rancher supplements his income by writing for an ad agency in London...
...which was just about all of them. He switched to acoustic guitar and a harder sound after a few songs. These were rock ballads with titles like “I Love You” and “Our Song.” He followed with a Dylan tune perfectly preserved in its translation into Hebrew. Geffen truly captures the aura of the ’60s folk-rocker...
...second half played out more to the Crimson tune, as a Brown lane violation at 15:38 sent Gates to the charity line, where she made one of two, breaking a 38-38 tie and giving Harvard a lead it would not relinquish for the remainder of the game...