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...dismissal of "Old Europe" as a spent force, Eco suggests that the New World still has much to learn: "Sure, Europe is old. But age brings advantages, like experience. Unfortunately with our Continent's tragic history we've lived through centuries of massacres, and maybe our nerves are steadier for it. Not to be flip, but 3,000 died in the Twin Towers, and 6 million in the Holocaust. Europe's old age is one of wisdom, not of Alzheimer's." His new book touches on politics, but also on faith. Raised Catholic, Eco has long since left the church...
...nation with countless soccer fields, West Germans have just one public golf course. But they also have Bernhard Langer, 27, who last week became the first German ever to win the Masters Tournament. With brilliant iron shots and steadier putting than has been usual for him, Langer in the last nine holes came from four shots back to win by two. His final total: 282, six under par for the Augusta National course. The lone West German pro on the P.G.A. tour, Langer is the first of his countrymen to win even the German Open. His Masters victory, he hopes...
...still her priority. "Taxes must become inevitable but affordable," she says. "I want to say to people, 'Forget about paying bribes. Pay taxes.'" Yushchenko is confident that public doubts about her will fade; "Time is the best doctor," he said in Davos. People "must feel that life is becoming steadier," Tymoshenko says. "Once they acquire new opportunities, all the fears and confrontations will collapse like a house of cards." Still, some Western businessmen are uneasy. "Yushchenko will be flying around the world and she'll be running things in Kiev - and running circles around him," says one U.S. exec...
...After the anguish of the past four years, the President may seem steadier. But, like many of his fellow baby boomers, Bush is still young for his age, a belated student radical aroused by the first flush of passionate idealism and playing with matches...
John Edwards' dealings with the press have been steadier. Outwardly the most charismatic and gregarious in the race, Edwards is closed and guarded with the media. Once a day he strolls through the press section of his plane and chats casually, but the exercise never lasts more than five minutes. More often he sits alone with headphones on, tuning out the press. Part of that may be simple fatigue. Once, during an interview, Edwards simply dozed...