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...Volkswagen appears to think so. Reports in the European press last week claimed the German automaker is thinking of steering a no-frills, €3,000 run-around toward emerging markets such as China, even though a similar plan by rival Renault has already veered off course. Dacia, Renault's Romanian subsidiary, has sold around 70,000 of its Logan cars since unveiling them in eastern Europe last year. But customers haven't been buying the basic €5,000 car the manufacturer designed for them; instead they've demanded expensive extras. Last week the French were introduced...
Finally, in closing, news has just reached us here that the Scythians appear to be pressing through onto the Xth Legion in Dacia. Many legionaries died in a battle on the Danube, although, thankfully, the standards were not lost. We should perhaps consider whether Dacia is defendable, and what exactly we gain there when some of our finest soldiers are penned down in that barbarian Hades. After all, we have other, more pressing, needs to consider, in the forests of Germania, and the deserts of Parthia. Who, in the Senate, will approach the emperor on this, and say?...
...Romanian charge d'affaires in New Delhi, Liviu Radu, 55, left his heavily guarded home one morning last week, climbed into his black Dacia sedan and was promptly seized by four armed men as he drove to his office. Two days later, the Khalistan Liberation Force and three other militant Sikh separatist groups in the Indian state of Punjab jointly claimed responsibility for the kidnapping...
Like more than half the traffic lights in Bucharest, this one on the busy corner of Boulevard Nicolae Balcescu is dead. In the freezing fog, sputtering Rumanian-made Dacia sedans are lurching every which way, horns honking. On the sidewalk, pedestrians slog through ankle-deep mud and slush past an armored personnel carrier, guarded by shivering young soldiers fingering the triggers of their Kalishnikov rifles. At a kiosk nearby, 50 customers jostle for the meager pile of Romania Libera newspapers. Two doors away, a line of more than 100 shoppers shuffles toward a butcher's counter offering only hamburger...
HARTFORD (68): Karen Ball 1-0--2; Betsy Anderson 3-6--12; Annette Flynn 3-2--8; Maura Rodgers 7-0--14; Trish Slocum 2-2--6; Dacia DeAngelis 2-1--5; Eva Esposito 5-0--10; Lisa Smith...