Загадка

Имеет место реклама: NYC #1 place to go #2.

Вопрос: что рекламируют и что находится внутри за этим плакатом?

Флюгер

Многие говорят, что Обама это новый Буш. А я по-прежнему думаю, что обычный флюгер. Поменялся ветер, поменялась и стратегия.

For the first time in his presidency, Obama is pursuing a legislative path that does not cut exclusively through Democratic territory. Republicans, who opposed the president virtually unanimously on all of his major initiatives over the past two years, warmly embraced the tax deal.

Можно, конечно, говорить о прагматическом подходе, но, мне кажется, трудно.

Holocaust во Франции

Я ничего об этом не знал до сегодняшнего дня.

"Winter Velodrome" bicycling racetrack and stadium), was a Nazi decreed raid and mass arrest in Paris by the French police on July 16 and 17, 1942, code named Operation Spring Breeze (Opération Vent printanier). The roundup was one of several aimed at reducing the Jewish population in Occupied France. According to records of the Préfecture de Police, 13,152 victims were arrested and held at the Vélodrome d'Hiver and the Drancy internment camp nearby, then shipped by railway transports to Auschwitz for extermination. French president Jacques Chirac apologized in 1995 for the complicit role French policemen and civil servants served in the raid...

For decades the French government declined to apologise for the role of French policemen in the roundup or for any other state complicity. It was argued that the French Republic had been dismantled when Philippe Pétain instituted a new French State during the war and that the Republic had been re-established when the war was over. It was not for the Republic, therefore, to apologise for events that happened while it had not existed and which had been carried out by a state which it did not recognise.