Oh how could I not put it on my French journal?

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He's pretty good, actually... though he does call the United States something that sounds more like "the United Summers" or maybe "the United Studies."

Eurovision!!!

http://www.spiegel.de/flash/0,5532,15290,00.html

My brother Chris's best friend Michael got married on Saturday ( Read more... )

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from The EconomistEMBARRASSINGLY sleazy, expensive and indefensible-but ours, and we are bloody well going to hang on to it. That was West Berlin during the cold war, seen through NATO eyes. And it may also explain why Russia has supported Transdniestria, a narrow strip of land on the eastern bank of the Dniestr river that has broken away from ( Read more... )

With my forays in France finished, I know it's time for a new start, a new town, and a new journal.

And as I'll be moving to Chicago soon to attend grad school at Northwestern, I'm going with the name pass_da_pierogi. I know, I know, but pass_the_pierogi was just one character too long so I thought I might as well put my title in the local dialect. ;)

Pierogi ( Read more... )

"When I went back to Russia, I had this sudden sensation of understanding everything, everything everyone was saying around me," Iulia, Stephan's new secretary and recent migrant to Berlin, told me of her first visit home. We had sat next to each other outdoors at the restaurant during Stephan's office "social night ( Read more... )

by Elaine Sciolino
April 29, 2007
from the New York TimesPARIS, April 28 - In an effort to broaden her appeal, Ségolène Royal engaged in a televised debate on Saturday with a man who is no longer even a candidate for the presidency of France ( Read more... )

On the train to Italy earlier this month, I sat in an internationally populated compartment trying to speak Italian with the woman across from me. When she asked me what other languages I spoke (possibly to end my disastrous exercise in Italian small talk), I mentioned that I had learned Romanian ( Read more... )