How I Spent the War
by Günter Grass
I tried to pick a quarrel with my father. It wasn’t easy. It would have taken massive recriminations, and, peace-loving family man that he was, he was quick to give in. Anything to maintain harmony. The progenitor had a constant wish for the offspring on his lips: “I want your life to be better. . . . You will have a better life than ours.” Try as I might to turn him into a bugbear, he was not made for the role.
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Ren: uskoro obnova pregovora
Evropski komesar za proširenje Oli Ren rekao je pred Evropskom komisijom u sredu da bi pregovori o Sporazumu o stabilizaciji i pridruživanju sa Srbijom uskoro mogli da budu nastavljeni. On je rekao da je takav razvoj događaja moguć pošto Beogradu poslednje vreme čini korake kojima se poboljšava saradnja Srbije sa Haškim tribunalom, javile su agencije.
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Flags of the World by Color Usage
Breakdown of all the flag colors in the world and how much each color is used in each flag.
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Traži se zakonska zabrana poricanja genocida
Nedavno lepljenje plakata sa likom Ratka Mladića u Beogradu, kao reakcija na predlog da se novobeogradski Bulevar AVNOJ-a preimenuje u Bulevar dr Zorana Djindjića, završilo se sa par prekršajnih prijava, dok je isto delovanje funkcionera Srpske radikalne stranke ocenjeno kao politički akt, uz poruku da to nije kažnjivo. Kao reakciju na ove dogadjaje na ulicama, ali i u srpskom Parlamentu, jedan od opozicionih poslanika Nenad Čanak najavio je inicijativu da se zakonom zabrani veličanje osoba optuženih za ratne zločine i poricanje genocida.
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Time for China to challenge its rural stigma
As a long-time China observer, I have always been impressed by the Chinese willingness to scrutinize one’s own shortcomings as a first and key step toward self-improvement. China has developed tremendously in the two decades since my first visit and this development is in large part due to societal introspection combined with a strong curiosity about how other nations have developed quickly.
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Political donations: It’s clean - trust me
The new law on election financing was supposed to guarantee that the people know the linkages of their representatives. This has not happened. Members of Parliament were supposed to submit reports by Monday last week on where their election campaign funds came from. And they did, indeed, give an accounting. So what did we find out? That the reports were pure evasions. Now we know that election funds came from art sales, as well as from vague supporters’ associations, admission fees to seminars, and in the case of Kyösti Karjula, “from the proceeds of a quiz”. It is also something of a guessing game as to how the supporters’ associations got their money, what happened in a seminar, or which companies supported which candidates.
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Inuit leader: stop expansion of Stansted airport
One of the most prominent members of the Inuit community will today plead for an end to the expansion of Stansted Airport and deliver a devastating critique of the link between Britain’s cheap flights culture and the effects of climate change on his people.
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