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January/February 2012
The over-generous Italian welfare state means that for all the belt-tightening, most people in the country still enjoy la dolce vita
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January/February 2012
Spirit of London 2012? The best thing that could happen to the Olympic Games would be to send them home
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January/February 2012
Was Jean Sibelius's newly discovered Eighth Symphony destroyed in one of the composer's notorious drunken rages?
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January/February 2012
The death of Christa Wolf has left Germany bereft of a powerful bridge of literary consciousness, whose universal work could talk to a once-divided nation
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