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It won’t be any fun for Chirac if his country breaks the European chain of ratification. Still, France can and must sink this treaty. If the unpleasant task were left to the perennially euro-skeptic British, the vote would be interpreted as a refusal to commit, but...

Author: By Daniel B. Holoch, | Title: France Should Say 'Non' | 4/19/2005 | See Source »

After 56 years of quiet business, the AID Insurance Co. recently found itself the object of unwelcome attention. No matter that there is no connection between the company (1984 sales: $169 million) and the dread disease acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). "The associations are incredibly unpleasant for us," said AID Insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Notes: Nov. 4, 1985 | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

In fact, if Aunt Dan had been dismissed, as were most of his previous efforts, he might have abandoned the theater altogether. "I just don't think I can write a better play than this one," he says. But how could such a pleasant person write a drama that is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now Comes the Just Dessert | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Less gently, a dean at a rival school asserts that Harvard is now "an extremely unpleasant and politicized environment," adding that "those who want to work on scholarship don't want to waste a lot of time on internecine war." Indeed, the Cambridge institution has had unaccustomed recruiting trouble. Despite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Critical Legal Times at Harvard | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

In the two weeks since, his eventual successor Joseph Ratzinger has put on a tour de force that would impress Karol Wojtyla. Now that he is Pope Benedict XVI, it all seems pre-destined. But back when TIME reported a story in early January saying then Cardinal Ratzinger had reemerged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vatican Diary: A New Papacy Begins | 4/16/2005 | See Source »

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