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| Thatcher's Biggest Debt |
 AMONG this summer's Olympics
and jubilees, Britons will celebrate
the last time a British army
actually won a war, 30 years ago
on the Falklands. That is appropriate.
But they are unlikely to read how
it was really won. As in so many conflicts,
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| THE ETCH-A-SKETCH
GOP FRONTRUNNER |
 STOP, hey, what's that sound?
Actually, it's the noise a great
political party makes when it
loses what's left of its mind.
And it happened - where else? - on
Fox News, when Mitt Romney
bought fully into the claim that gas
prices are high thanks to an Obama
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Ireland to announce EU referendum date
AP
DUBLIN Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny says his government will announce on Tuesday a date for Ireland’s referendum on the European Union fiscal treaty.
The treaty lays down new spending and deficit rules for members of the 17-country group that use the euro as their currency.
The pact will become law next year once at least 12 of the 17 eurozone members approve it through their parliaments. Ireland is the only member requiring a national vote.
Kenny made his comments on Monday while visiting China. Irish voters have rejected the previous two EU treaties in referendums, then approved both in reruns.
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