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Germany: Pining for the Deutschmark
feature Discontent with the euro began in May after the bailout of Greece and rose again last month with the European bank's rescue of Ireland.
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How Spike Lee offended the Italians
feature In his latest film, Miracle at St. Anna, Lee’s pursuit of justice for African-American soldiers led him to do injustice to the Italian resistance, said Franz Haas in the Neue
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Nationalizing banks: Europe shows the way
feature European finance ministers agreed to work together to inject billions of euros into struggling banks in hopes of restoring confidence in the financial system.
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Britain: Is classism worse than racism?
feature Communities Secretary John Denham touched off a national debate when he said that class is a bigger factor than race in determining who succeeds in society.
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Europe: Painting Amanda Knox as a sex-crazed killer
feature After a trial that lasted for months, Amanda Knox, 22, an American college student studying in Italy, was convicted in Italy of murdering her British roommate, Meredith Kercher.
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Denmark: Revenge for the caricatures of Mohammed
feature Kurt Westergaard, the artist whose drawing of the Prophet Mohammed caused riots across the Muslim world in 2006, was baby-sitting his granddaughter when a Somali man armed with an axe and a knife burst into his home.
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France: Taxing the Internet to support the arts
feature President Sarkozy is considering levying a tax on Internet ad revenue earned by Google, Yahoo, and other major web companies in order to fund arts programs.
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Bulgaria: A Kafkaesque encounter with Customs
feature We may have shed communism, but we still have a byzantine bureaucracy reminiscent of that era, said Elenko Elenkov in Dnevnik.
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Czech Republic: The rise of the mail-order Russian groom
feature In surveys that measure this sort of thing, Russians currently come in third among the most attractive men in the world, “right after Italians and Americans,” said Petra Procházková in Lidové noviny.
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Britain: A murderous child, a broken justice system
feature Jon Venables was 10 when he killed 2-year-old James Bulger. He was released from a juvenile facility at age 19. Now at 27, he has been sentenced to two years in prison for possession of child pornography.
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Germany: The president’s ‘cowardly’ resignation
feature President Horst Köhler abruptly resigned after being widely criticized for a provocative comment about the possible need to defend the country's economic interests with military action.
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United Kingdom: How low can Fergie go?
feature A sting by a News of the World reporter captured Sarah Ferguson sellling access to Prince Andrew, Britain’s top international trade envoy, for $700,000.
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Germany: A tragedy ends the Love Parade
feature Twenty people were crushed to death and more than 500 injured when panic broke out at the Love Parade festival in Duisberg.
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Poland: An unfathomable loss
feature When President Lech Kaczynski’s plane crashed in western Russia, Poland lost not only its president but also many of the nation's top leaders.
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