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The baguette is back
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The pain and the pleasure
Bye-bye Blair
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Gulags without guards
Kate Brown
Off the streets and onto Cannibal Island
Haruki Murakami's existential musings
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2007 is the year of Elgar's sesquicentennial. Elgar died in 1934, but his unfinished Third Symphony wasn't performed until 1998. This itself was perhaps something of a surprise: according to our reviewer, it "does not, cannot exist".
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Communist collapse
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