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By LEOS ROUSEK PRAGUE -- Persistent unemployment and a growing distrust of the political class has taken some of the gloss off the Velvet Revolution that restored democracy to this country 20 years ago. Celebrations marking the...
Today is Tuesday, December 1, the 335th day of 2009. Chiang Kai-Shek is elected president of Kuomintang, China's ruling party. United States signs mutual security pact with Nationalist China _ now Taiwan. Representatives of 12...
Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION Winnipeg Free Press BUCHAREST, Romania -- Two exit polls indicate that Romania's president has received more votes than any other candidate in the country's presidential election, but not...
The phonemaker is rushing to set up shop close to its Eastern European customers The Transylvanian sheep pasture hadn't seen much action since the departure of the Roman whose ruined villa was recently unearthed nearby. But...
RADUCANENI - The 13-year-old boy sees his mother twice a week - and only by webcam because she's joined the waves of Romanians leaving their country to find work in Western Europe. His village, where farmers still plow fields...
Italians Angered Over Ruling by ECHR Italian schools are told crucifixes are exclusionary and Italians of all political persuasions react against the secularization of the country's Roman Catholic identity. The European Court...
Clover Stroud reviews an inspiring guidebook examining Romania's history and culture and a compelling narrative on why Italy is so seductive to travellers. ROMANIA edited by John Villiers (Pallas Athene _19.99) TUSCANY by...
Doing a literature search on the Price Equation for some weblog posts I found that Peter Turchin had written a new paper on world history using Price's formalism explicitly. A quantitative ecologist by training, Turchin has...
Comeback: Latin is enjoying a revival in state primary and secondary schools Latin is enjoying a revival in state primary and secondary schools, it emerged today. Meanwhile growing numbers of primaries are introducing Latin...
Nearly two years ago, Lance Cherry set off from the Far East on a ride home to South Africa. Celebrating a halfway stop, and the passage of Asia into the Middle East, he finds himself sucking deeply on a Turkish hookah and...
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