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...personal belongings, manuscripts, drawings and paper cutouts in an enormous book-shaped building designed especially for the bicentennial. tel: (45-70) 23 55 55; www.unitedexhibits. com. There will be some 2,000 other events around the world this year, from an opera based on The Tinderbox in Japan to Estonian national TV and radio programs. For more on these and other Andersen-related activities, check out www.hca2005.com...
...proposed exemptions: defense spending, R&D costs and contributions to the E.U. budget. The proposals drew fire. "Adding a long list of exemptions would blur the picture," says an Estonian diplomat. "Inflation, investment and credit ratings are all at stake." Juncker even warned the pact could be left as is, which would rile France and Germany. Next week, he'll bring ministers together again to try to find a compromise. But few expect a solution until E.U. leaders meet in Brussels later this month - if then. BA Gets A New Pilot Talk about getting an upgrade. Willie Walsh, former boss...
Backed by Bradley fighting vehicles, the American soldiers of Coldsteel Company swarm into a clutch of farmhouses as a platoon of Estonian infantry closes from the rear. The Americans are part of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment's operation to seal off a stretch of villages hugging the Euphrates in the Jafr Sakhr region, about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad. "Go round 'em up," a U.S. officer hollers, and male villagers of military age--one with his crying 3-year-old clinging to his neck--are sifted out. A humvee approaches and stops in front of the lined...
...message, a "show of force," as he calls it. He instructs his engineers to pile the weapons caches in the front yard of House 71. "We got all this stuff in his house, I don't see any reason why we can't blow it up," Ryan says. His Estonian counterpart chuckles. "I don't mind; it's not my house," he says. By day's end, the message has been delivered repeatedly. Coalition troops destroy two vehicles and another house in acts of retaliation. At nightfall the battalion returns to its base, having uprooted a large number of insurgent...
...almost two-thirds of them wanted the E.U. to cooperate with the U.S. rather than compete with it. "The idea that Europe can coalesce around opposition to Bush is just wrong," says Toomas Hendrik Ilves, vice chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the European Parliament and a former Estonian Foreign Minister. Only when Europe is united around a positive, not arrayed against a negative, Ilves argues, will it find its way to unity...