Madrid — Cindy Sheehan blazed through Madrid this week like a rock star or a political candidate, shuttling from peace rally to a day-long press event to a private dinner with her supporters. Watchful handlers hurried her from venue to venue, drawing her away from autograph seekers, though she seemed always to have time to […]
Samuel Loewenberg
Samuel Loewenberg lives in Berlin and writes about European affairs.
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Letter From London: Britannia Stays Cool
Finished with their Sunday morning of studying the Koran, the dozens of young boys in the Muslim Center in east London raced to put their shoes back on. Talking excitedly, they filed upstairs to spend the rest of the afternoon playing Arabic board games and Ping-Pong. Three days earlier, terrorist bombs had ripped open three […]
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That Other Forum
PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL — What do Bill Gates, Tony Blair, and Sharon Stone have in common? All spent the last week of January hanging out in Davos, the exclusive Swiss resort town that for the last three decades has been home to the World Economic Forum, where the world’s elite business, financial, and political leaders […]
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Offshore Thing
George W. Bush seems to have the Democrats fiscally stymied. They can try to rescind most of his tax cuts, but as responsible fiscal stewards they would need that money to close his huge deficits — and could forget about addressing public needs. Alternatively, they could try to restore social outlay and take a lot […]
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Business Meets Its Match
For decades the American chemical industry has put tens of thousands of substances on the market and into the environment with little interference from the U.S. government. What a surprise, then, to come up against the new Europe. The European Union, concerned that it does not have health or environmental data on the majority of […]
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Liberation Lie
MADRID, SPAIN — At Saturday’s anti-war rally here — with chants of “No a la Guerra!” filling the city’s central square, and film director Pedro Almodovar and actress Leonor Watling reading an anti-war manifesto — air-raid sirens began to blare from loudspeakers. In response, the crowd of a million or more sank to its knees […]