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Flustered French parents hurriedly shooed their children away from the TV last week as a bland discussion program suddenly turned…
You probably remember: he was so unabashedly pro-American, he so admired our work ethic and free market capitalism, not to…
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The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency By David Marsh (Yale University Press, 352 Pages, $35) Imagine, if…
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White King and Red Queen: How the Cold War Was Fought on the Chessboard By Daniel Johnson (Houghton Mifflin, 384…