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Heirs to Fortuyn?
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| A small plaque marks the spot where Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down.
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| Heirs to Fortuyn? |
| City Journal | Apr 24, 2009 | Bruce Bawer |
| When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much read more |
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U.S. Crew in Standoff With Pirates Off Somalia Coast
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images An undated file photo of the Maersk Alabama container ship, formerly called the Maersk Alva.
U.S. Crew in Standoff With Pirates Off Somalia Coast
NY Times | Apr 08, 2009 | By SHARON OTTERMAN and MARK MAZZETTI
Hours after pirates commandeered a United States-flagged container ship with 20 American crew members off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, the pirates and crew appeared to be in a standoff, with the ship under control of its crew once again but the skipper a captive of the pirates.. . . read more
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Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
The documents make clear that within weeks of the incident, investigators piecing together the fragments realised that only three of the weapons could be accounted for.
Mystery of lost US nuclear bomb
By Gordon Corera BBC News security correspondent, northern Greenland
The United States abandoned a nuclear weapon beneath the ice in northern Greenland following a crash in 1968, a BBC investigation has found.
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