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Just when you thought it was not psychologically damaging to root for the Harvard football team...
Politicians have blamed unpopular measures, like agricultural reforms, on the bureaucrats. But a wholesale lapse in leadership throughout the Community allowed doubts and suspicions to take root. Political leaders galloped ahead, blithely drawing up plans without consulting the wishes, worries and hopes of the people. Last week a sizable portion made it clear they are not about to trade their national identity for something else without knowing why. "Maastricht has yet to be explained," acknowledged Portugal's President Mario Soares...
This kind of susceptibility of the two major parties to special interests like the hard-line pro-choice and pro-life movements lies at the root of much of the widespread dissatisfaction with the current party system...
...just owls that will suffer from the clearcuts. Removing trees that have been there for centuries causes tremendous erosion. Disappearance of vast root systems allows soil to run down into valleys and rivers, killing fish and destroying the water's web of life. And certainly man is affected by the clearcutting...
...first time in memory, we will not greet another no-look pass with a shrug of familiarity: Magic is an amateur again. Why should he, suddenly mortal, risk his health to play in the Olympics? Why should we race off to watch him play in Barcelona? Because the root of the word amateur -- still the heart of the Games, even in these professional times -- is the first Latin verb that every student learns: amo, or "I love...