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The shopping list for a festive meal in the north German city of Luebeck in 1596 comprised six young lambs, seven ox tongues, two wheels of cheese, one hare, seven fresh salmon and 173 pounds of beef.
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“We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional,” wrote Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein in the Washington Post. “In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.”
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The World Economic Forum has a troubled twin down the road from Davos where burned-out executives seek refuge in a clinic with all the trappings of Thomas Mann ’s “Magic Mountain.”
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President Barack Obama’s bet that he can use the Arab spring to reshape the U.S. relationship with the Muslim world, and his standing with American voters as an international leader, will be tested today as a major march is called in Cairo that may erupt into anti-U.S. violence.
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Every summer, Gustav Mahler shut the door on his hut by Austria’s Worthersee far from the snake pit of the Vienna opera, determined to compose symphonies that contain the world.
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Ben Nelson doesn’t face re-election to the U.S. Senate for another year and won’t know his opponent until next May. Yet advertising attacks on the second-term Democrat began months ago.
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European leaders heading to the home of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain sanatorium are surprising credit-ratings companies, and the economists who agree with them, as the consensus predicts another year of trauma for the euro area.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who called a Democratic state senator an “arrogant S.O.B.” this week, joins a distinguished and bipartisan line of politicians who have employed the term. It may help him too.
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President Barack Obama’s aides and Republican lawmakers insist the scandal enveloping former CIA Director David H. Petraeus and a top general won’t distract them from negotiating a way to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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A familiar specter is haunting Europe: How to live with a powerful Germany that seems to act according to its own interests, and whose policies are driven by domestic politics.
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