Looming Reversal of Centralization as Empires Disintegrate - The Market Oracle


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Looming Reversal of Centralization as Empires Disintegrate
The Market Oracle
I suppose there were highly educated people who came to the voters in the late Roman republic and said something like this: "Unless decisive action is taken now, Rome will go bankrupt." If so, they were right. But it took a lot longer than they thought ...

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Posh pizza toppings - Irish Independent

Posh pizza toppings
Irish Independent
Java Republic has sold five times more Kopi Luwak in the first four months of the year compared with the entire period from 2008 to 2011. It's also worth noting that sales of coffee at Insomnia rose 0.8 per cent last week.

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Templepatrick property developer declared bankrupt - BBC News

Templepatrick property developer declared bankrupt
BBC News
At the time the administrator was appointed, the company owed Ulster Bank, Northern Bank and Bank of Ireland a combined £28.6m. Unsecured creditors were owed a further £1.35m, including £322744 due to Double R Racing, a Surrey-based motor racing ...

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France inauguration: Francois Hollande sworn in as new President with stylish ... - Daily Mail


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France inauguration: Francois Hollande sworn in as new President with stylish ...
Daily Mail
It meant that the seventh president of France's Fifth Republic - a man holding the second most powerful executive position on earth after the US president - was soon soaking wet. 'He looks like he has been swimming in his suit,' said Genevieve Bernard, ...

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The rather dangerous Monsieur Hollande - The Economist


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The rather dangerous Monsieur Hollande
The Economist
IT IS half of the Franco-German motor that drives the European Union. It has been the swing country in the euro crisis, poised between a prudent north and spendthrift south, and between creditors and debtors. And it is big.

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Years Ago - Youngstown Vindicator

Years Ago
Youngstown Vindicator
1981: Irish Republican Army hunger-striker Bobby Sands dies at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in his 66th day without food. 1987: About 800 people attend a ceremony at Kent State University to mark the death of four students at the university 17 ...

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Years Ago - Youngstown Vindicator

Years Ago
Youngstown Vindicator
1932: Mobster Al Capone, convicted of income-tax evasion, enters the federal penitentiary in Atlanta. (Capone is later transferred to Alcatraz Island.) 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval clash fought entirely with carrier aircraft, ...

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