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...basic problem is a growing mutual incomprehension, like a middle-aged married couple losing touch with why they used to love each other. One American diplomat calls it a "tectonic shift" of values and expectations. Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform in London, says that "the security threats applying to each side of the Atlantic are increasingly varied, and not of high salience to the other. The Americans worry about missiles raining down from rogue states. The European governing classes worry about the mess they made of the Balkans in the '90s and want to do better...
...Mart's real problem in Europe is a lack of scale. In the U.S., where it can shift massive volumes of stock through its mammoth supercenters, the company wrings price concessions from suppliers and passes on the savings to customers. Wal-Mart's 3,118 stores in the U.S. average 38,109 sq m each; Asda's 241 outlets are barely one-third that size. Moreover, Asda is primarily devoted to food, not higher-margin general merchandise...
...spending over the next year. Under the circumstances, it is difficult to reconcile such a drastic reduction in EPA funding with Bush's grandiose pledges to continue many of the agency's programs at full strength. True, some of the cuts have been balanced by the shifting of federal funds to the state level. But given the collective action problems associated with many environmental issues (like clean air), this shift may wind up helping different regions of the country at the expense of hurting others. Without a strong EPA steering national initiatives in these areas, many states will have little...
Senior winger Kiirsten Suurkask scored a minute later with a top-shelf wrister. Then on her next shift, she assisted on Harvard's sixth goal, which was credited to Catlin...
...child teenager, as reckless as they come and headed for nowhere, but he grew up to be his sport's father figure, Dad without the breaks, and a corporate titan to boot. He could regale a crowd of GM dealers with war stories for an hour--Mr. Charm--then shift gears in a heartbeat, chiding drivers who wanted to slow the cars down as "candy asses." He made tens of millions of dollars racing and tens of millions more running Dale Earnhardt Inc., but even at 49, a man of considerable responsibilities and with nothing left to prove, he would...