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Letter From Sofia: Old Tanks and Modern Mayhem

Letter From Sofia: Old Tanks and Modern Mayhem

The military museum in Bulgaria's sprawling capital city consists of a tiny building and a huge outdoor display of weapons that look as if they had been wheeled in fresh from the battlefields and parked, higgledy piggledy: mountain howitzers that shelled Turks in 1912...

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Germany Votes and Austerity Reigns–For Now

Germany Votes and Austerity Reigns–For Now

Europe's most powerful nation has voted. On September 22nd, the people of Germany granted Angela Merkel a huge victory, awarding her center-right party nearly 50 percent of the seats in the federal parliament, the Bundestag. Although Merkel’s victory was a foregone...

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