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Verba, who can designate how the fund is spent under the terms of its creation, said he plans to make it available to his successor as a discretionary pool...
...comes to grand pronouncements or provocative arguments about the history or future of the Continent. The book is a subtle study, dealing in moods, not discourse. It is, after all, titled In Europe, not On Europe, and throughout, it is more interested in images and events than ideas. Mak spent 1999 criss-crossing the Continent in a rattling blue camper van, sending dispatches to the Dutch paper NRC Handelsblad. These reports, collected here, create a journey through the last century, with Mak breaking up what is essentially traditional, narrative history with short, contemporary portraits of historical settings. So Mak settles...
...matchups and a No. 1 vs. No. 3 game gave little momentum or substance to feel-good stories about underdogs and the growing parity in college basketball.That, however, has little to do with my delight at the Tournament’s conclusion.I’ve spent much of the past three weeks hunting down internet connections and sports bars in Buenos Aires, Argentina, doing my best to keep up with a tournament whose import and fan base lies almost exclusively in the United States. I’ve watched a few blurry games on a laptop prone to freezing...
...year-old has spent the last couple of years attempting to win back his place on the national team and secure a spot for the Olympics. He publicly announced that he would cease his commercial activities and curtailed his public appearances. But without admitting that what he did was wrong, this penitence was just not enough. In Athens, Tian had told reporters it was his "dream to win another gold for the motherland on my doorstep." But it wasn't to be. On March 26, the same day that China lost the 10-meter event he had made...
...those “Quadded” unfortunates concealed their profound disappointment with airy-fairy promises of “community.” On Housing Day, there is seemingly no sadness—there is only the comfort and contentment of knowing your next three years will be spent alongside House-mates similarly imbued with a proud sense of “spirit...