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Instead, Chirac's "third path" will eventually lead Europeans toward the American model. They will take it slow: along the way they'll witness more strikes, as in France last December; governments thrown out by voters, as in Sweden; and showdowns between unions and employers, as in Germany now. The politicians could make the ride easier on themselves if they'd start telling people that the destination might not be so horrible after all. --With reporting by Greg Burke/Rome and Thomas Sancton/Paris
...last week firefighter Chris Fields joined the congregants at the fence. Fields, 31, was immortalized when a camera captured him carrying the body of one-year-old Baylee Almon from the bomb site--an image that came to symbolize all the heroism and tragedy of that bloody Wednesday. Thrown together by chance, Fields and Baylee's mother Aren have become friends; Almon says he calls her a couple of times a week just to check in. Speaking not just for himself but also for the hundreds of rescue workers who helped piece Oklahoma City together during those awful days, Fields...
...dealing with a woman who exhibited such extremes of emotional abuse as throwing herself down the stairs in an attempt to prevent Charles from going hunting. This behavior is symptomatic of a person who, apart from being emotionally unstable, is unreasonably demanding of her spouse. Imagine if Charles had thrown himself down the stairs in an attempt to stop Diana from going to her gym. What sexist double standards we live by! CHRIS DWYER Bondi, Australia...
...thrown out a couple of times when we shouldn't have," Allard said...
After all, consciousness--the existence of pleasure and pain, love and grief--is a fairly central source of life's meaning. For it to have been thrown into the fabric of the universe as a freebie would suggest to some people that the thrower wanted to impart significance...