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Archive for June, 2008

David A. Andelman: Swiss Bear Arms…At a Medieval Wedding

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in China, Switzerland | Comments

FRIBOURG, SWITZERLAND—This weekend, Cyrill and Maureen got married. It was a three-day affair, with medieval theme, each of the more than 400 guests wearing medieval garb, eating and drinking ...
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Kate Maloff: Carla Bruni v. the American First Lady

Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in First Lady, France, Gender | Comments

It’s rare that the French provide us with the watercooler stories we cherish here in the States—à la the Spitzer downfall and the Lewinsky travails of a decade earlier. Rather, ...
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Belinda Cooper: In Turkey, History as Gov’t Property

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in Free Speech, Justice, Turkey | Comments

Last week, Turkish publisher Ragip Zarakolu was convicted by a Turkish court of “insulting the state,” a crime under Article 301 of the Turkish criminal code. Zarakolu was sentenced to five months ...
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Benjamin Pauker: Soccer Wars…and Peace?

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Europe, Sport | Comments

For those of you not passionately following the Euro 2008 soccer tournament (which every four years pits Europe’s top 16 national teams against one another), let me be the first ...
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David A. Andelman: Iraq According To Its Sheikhs

Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Democracy, Iraq, Media | Comments

Welcome to the debut of The World Policy Blog, what we at World Policy Journal believe will be a whole new way of looking at the globe – not from ...
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