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...limited in the amount of a market they can control, huge national power companies - think E.ON, France's electricity behemoth EDF and Enel - continue to have a hand in the generation, supply and distribution of energy. It's tough for potential new entrants to break into those businesses. "The main way in which these markets become 'contestable' is thus via takeovers of less efficient players," says Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels. The result: Europe's biggest utilities spent the last decade or so snapping up subsidiaries in member states, rather than in truly...
...also about taking the public into prisons." This is one of the nicer ones. Opened in June 2004 with a capacity of 450, Bronzefield was designed specifically for women. That means brightly-painted walls, Matisse prints hanging around the place and a row of potted trees in the main hall. But no amount of magnolia yellow can cover the stale smoke in the air, or the hollow echo as voices bounce off concrete bricks, or the cold clunk of heavy keys in steel doors. "You only see us laughing and playing around, but this is an awful place," says Bronwen...
...panicky thieves dumped more than $2 million, along with clothes and firearms that may yield forensic evidence, in a van parked outside a hotel. A passerby alerted the police, who promptly swooped in. EXPLORE STORAGE OPTIONS: It took police less than a week to round up the gang's main vehicles, including two recovered in local pub parking lots and one car found still burning. Neither did it take long to pinpoint other items they used: 14 large steel crates dumped in a nearby field. CHOOSE PARTNERS WISELY: Police swiftly put up a $3.5 million reward to encourage loose lips...
...savvy.” Zoellick also touched on the significance of President George W. Bush’s visit this week to India, a country which Zoellick said is playing an increasingly important role in world affairs. Aniruddha Patil, a Kennedy School student, said that “the main reason I came here was to see what facts impact foreign policy towards China, India, and Russia, and the session dealt with those topics and others around the globe very well.” Zoellick noted after the forum that he “greatly enjoyed it, especially meeting...
...Toxic’ is a pretty fun song, though,” she adds, “or at least it was a few years ago.”So, is irony the solution to the hipster’s dilemma, and the cure for her main source of guilt? Can it let you abide by your fiercest artistic commandments while admitting a few sins of your own? Can you be both prophet and sinner?Some reject the idea of musical sin altogether—and where there’s no sin, irony can give no absolution. Susan...