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An obituary for Levi Fuller, physician, Iowa state legislator, and president of the Board of Trustees of the Upper Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa.

Intro -- Title Page -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: POINT OF NO RETURN -- CHAPTER 2: CONSERVATIVE COALITIONS -- CHAPTER 3: LIFE BEFORE NATIONAL POLITICS -- CHAPTER 4: MULRONEY LEADS CANADA, MANNING LEADS WESTERN DISCONTENT -- CHAPTER 5: PC DEMISE, REFORM RISE -- CHAPTER 6: THE THIRTY-FIFTH PARLIAMENT -- CHAPTER 7: CHRÉTIEN IN A NO-CONTEST -- CHAPTER 8: MACKAY IN OTTAWA, HARPER AT THE NCC -- CHAPTER 9: TO THE DEATH, 1997-2003 -- CHAPTER 10: HARPER TAKES THE ALLIANCE -- CHAPTER 11: MACKAY TAKES THE PCS -- CHAPTER 12: THE MERGER -- CHAPTER 13: RATIFICATION -- CHAPTER 14 : FULL CIRCLE, ACT I -- CHAPTER 15 : FULL CIRCLE, ACT II -- CHAPTER 16: NEVER AGAIN -- APPENDIX A: TIMELINE OF KEY EVENTS -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY.

European unemployment is too high, and employment is too low. Over 7½ per cent of Europe's workforce is unemployed, and only two thirds of people aged 15-64 are in work. At the Lisbon summit two years ago the heads of government set the target that by 2010 the employment rate should rise from 64 per cent to at least 70 per cent. And for older workers between 55 and 64 the employment rate should rise from 38 per cent to at least one half. These are ambitious targets. They will require two big changes: more people must seek work, and among those seeking work a higher proportion must get a job. So we need higher participation, and (for full employment) we need a much lower unemployment rate. Can it be done? A mere glance at the experience of different European countries shows that it can. As Table 1 shows, four E.U. countries already exceed the overall target for 2010 (Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden). And seven of the 15 countries in the E.U already have lower unemployment than the United States (the previous four plus Austria, Ireland and Luxembourg).