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Wall Street rallies as euro concerns ease, data eyed
NEW YORK, Dec 3 — Wall Street rallied for a second day yesterday as concerns about Europe’s sovereign debt crisis waned, forcing investors to reverse bearish bets on the market. Buyers piled into the market as they worked to negate bets the S&P 500 will fall. Net short positions in the E-Mini S&P 500 index futures contract hit a two-year high last …
NY Times Published Another Miserable Piece of Propaganda Targeting Russia’s New Gas Pipeline to EU

Charlie Rose with Jon Lee Anderson; David Martin; Khidhir Hamza; Javier Solana; R.W. Apple, Jr. (April 9, 2003) $24.95 Jon Lee Anderson of The New Yorker discusses what appears now to be the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime in Baghdad. Then, David Martin of CBS News looks at the day’s events from a military perspective. Next, Khidir Hamza, an Iraqi who formerly worked as a nuclear scientist for Saddam Hussein, reflects on his experiences. Javier Solana, representative for the common foreign and security policy …

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin $10.68 Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime ally Josef Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was finally defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, both the German and the Soviet killing sites fell behind the ir…

Nicholas and Alexandra $10.10 The story of the love that ended an empireIn this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives: Nicholas’s political naïveté, Alexandra’s obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexis’s brave struggle with hemophilia. Against …

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers $8.95 About national and international power in the “modern” or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the “new monarchies” in W. Europe….

Shattered Union $10.51 Become the leader vying for control of a fracturedUnited States during a Second Civil War!Product InformationSet atop the smoldering ruins of a fictional United States torn apart by civilwar Shattered Union is an action-packed turn-based strategy game.  Thecountry is at war with itself and players can choose to lead one of sevenbellicose factions: Greater California The New Republic of Texas …