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December 19, 2011
Vaclav Havel, the dissident who came out of the shadows
December 16, 2011
Anne Applebaum: Christopher Hitchens and a lifetime of language
"I see you were feeling eeyorish about Macedonia last week." As far as I recall, those were the first words Christopher Hitchens ever said to me. They threw me completely. What was this new adjective, "eeyorish"? From which language did it derive?
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Christopher Hitchens and a lifetime of language
December 11, 2011
Cameron’s eyes are on the City
LONDON
As I write, men in expensive suits are sitting in slick offices all around me, talking on the phone to Almaty and Bangalore, swapping bonds and oil wells.
The men — and they are mostly men — are of many nationalities: Russian, French, Libyan, Nigerian, Italian, Turkish, Indian, Brazilian, Ghanaian, Kazakh, Chinese, Japanese and more. They live here, however, because London wants them. London doesn’t mind if they drive up the contemporary art market, occupy Knightsbridge or crowd into ov...
Cameron's eyes are on the City
November 13, 2011
Why Berlusconi’s reign should be a lesson to revolutionaries everywhere
All political careers end in failure, a British politician once said.Even so,politicians rarely fail as spectacularly as did Silvio Berlusconi, who at long last resigned Saturday night, to the cheers of his countrymen (“la commedia è finita!” writes an Italian friend) and the approval of stock markets around the world.
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Why Berlusconi's reign should be a lesson to revolutionaries everywhere
October 27, 2011
What Libya has inherited from Moammar Gaddafi
October 17, 2011
September 25, 2011
Where economic ambition meets reality in Rwanda
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