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Detour
The Financial Times takes a stab at Romanian Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu?s? energy. Ah,

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Explain collective punishment to me please
I'm drowning in footage that speaks of meaningless destruction. I remember watching a documentary on the 100-year-old war between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs last year. It was late at night on a school day, the air was humid and the fan in...

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Nexus
I'm guessing But the Rosy Crucifixion is a thing I have to see through in Romanian - must be Antoaneta Ralian's dead on translation. All through college, my friends and I, extatic and wanting more after And then Philip Roth came along and I lost...

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I am a wheel spinner too and so
... I feel duty bound to give you the latest on Romanian troops in Iraq. It was fun while it lasted, and though it lasted less than expected it sure was intense, but Romania will not retire our troops from Iraq. No, our troops are there to stay...

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Withdrawal from Iraq? Sure, but let's discuss it first
Awww... Who knew Thursday would be the day the Defense Ministry would request [RO] Romanian troops be pulled out of Iraq? But don't send those 890 Romanian soldiers packing just yet. What comes next is a series of media speculations, some...

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Pop culture car-bomber
In keeping with the funny, the day's joke. From this here opinion piece on our very own police-held terrorist/car-bomber. It only works if you're me. And only in Romanian.

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I need more
... of Ovidiu's coffee and his grumpy disposition and his 7:30 a.m. loud Vivaldi, of sun, water, salt, sand everywhere, Arctic Monkey in the Shire, Soni's food, tequila shots, Norman Mailer's

Asemanator: 16 - The White Stripes - One More Cup of Coffee (Bob Dylan Cover) | Broadband in Romania... | Looking down the list |

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Remember the pogroms
The Iasi pogrom , in eastern Romania, 65 years ago on this day. The number of Jewish people from Iasi, who died during those horrible days, either shot down on the street, or suffocating and starving in death trains, is estimated at around 13,000.

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Un-bleep-ing-believable
I got a sense early today that I might be living inside TV series here , you Romanian avid readers you. With an improvised bomb made out of a gas tank (say it with me: BUTELIE), and a trigger placed inside his mobile phone. I wonder what mobile...

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A little noise
I just took out two very melodramatic posts, for they worried people too much. No drama there, just the usual twists and turns. Thought I was going to quit citing irreconciliable differences between job responsabilities and my journalistic...

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