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Here's a round-up of stuff I didn't have time to post Monday morning: G&M – July 5: G8 leaders back off 0.7% foreign aid target (p. A9) G&M – July 4: NGOs head to Scotland ahead of summit G&M – July 4: CTV: Live 8 audience 'remarkable' G&M – July 4: Lee Hamilton: Doing nothing is [...]
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Jacques Chirac, president of France, was overheard dissing English food to President Vladimir Putin of Russia and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder of Germany. An excerpt from the BBC story: “One cannot trust people whose cuisine is so bad,” (the story in the French newspaper Liberation) quotes Mr Chirac saying. A spokesman for Mr Chirac said the [...]