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America's deadly devotion to guns

A family looks at a pistol at an annual meeting of the National Rifle Association, which now claims more than 4 million members. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images At an organising breakfast for…
PUBLISHED: April 16, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2687 words)

France: a divided nation goes to the polls

One of the central paradoxes of life in France is that for all the French preen themselves as the most civilised nation on Earth, they are also quickly prone to collapse into self-lacerating fits of…
PUBLISHED: April 14, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3432 words)
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