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July 4, 2006

Culture

Italy?!?

by Doug Merrill

Bleh.

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July 2, 2006

Economics and demography

Turkmen Gas and Chinese Bombs

by Alex Harrowell

After the Russian gas showdown with Ukraine, the Turkmen gas showdown with Russia. Two can play at that game, it seems. No doubt a lot of this is motivated, like the Ukraine crisis, by the decision makers’ own corruption interests in their Austrian, Swiss or God knows where nominee companies and numbered accounts. No doubt [...]

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Europe and the world

Taxi! For Nöel Forgeard

by Alex Harrowell

Well, it looks like one of the questions from this post may have been answered indirectly. It now matters little whether or not the Clearstream affair is ever cleared up, as some of the people most responsible for it have anyway been disgraced. Since the last post, the only real news on the Clearstream story [...]

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July 1, 2006

Culture

So This Is the European Championship Now?

by Doug Merrill

Where did the rest of the world go?
I wrote that Brazil looked eminently beatable, and so they were. (And Emmanuel wrote that Brazil was overrated.) France has just gotten better and better after scraping through the group round.
Anyone think we’ll find out how far Franco-German reconciliation has come on July 9?

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