Continuing our wall-to-wall coverage of this event, here is a reasonable approach to coping with it. Commentary one year when Spain gave Germany an inordinate number of points: “I see Mallorca has just cast its votes.”
Category Archives: A Few Euros More
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Anthony Wells looks at some of the fringe candidates standing in Britain’s elections to the European Parliament
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The NY Times takes an interesting look at the American electoral chessboard. As expected, both the Bush and Kerry campaigns will have an even harder time tracking down the marginal American voter than Bush and Gore had in 2000.
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The Guardian’s Euroblog – a record of the European election campaign written by three British MEPs – Roger Helmer, Richard Corbett and Sarah Ludford (found via Doctor Vee)
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HUDDERSFIELD, England (Reuters) — Seven men who enjoyed duck and caviar at more than 22,000 feet in the Himalayas pitched a claim Tuesday for the record highest altitude formal dinner.
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Great title for a blog post, “If the past is another country, how about a declaration of independence?” Interesting cogitation behind the title, too.
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Via the Young Fogey, here’s an amusing website that ranks and grades the various flags of the world. What grade does your country get?
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Ken Macleod has an interesting post about his attendance at an SF convention in Croatia
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Georgian President Saakashvili has disbanded the Adjaran parliament and installed direct rule in the province after the departure of Aslan Abashidze. Living with Caucasians has an interesting on-the-ground perspective on the events before the flight of Abashidze
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On April 5, Siemens AG’s CEO Heinrich v. Pierer talked to the UN Security Council about The Role of [multinational] Business in Conflict Prevention, Peacekeeping and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding. I suppose the perspective of cross-country hierarchies on these issues should be given more public attention.