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...promise to keep troops in Europe in order to gain its allies' assent - especially that of France - to West German rearmament and NATO membership. The U.S. had to balance power not only on the outside, but also on the inside. Just by being there, the U.S. acted as twin counterweight. With its enormous power it reassured Europe against the Soviet Union and also against a rising Germany, which was always a bit too big for the Continent...
...York Times called it "an odious stunt." That it is not. It's far from perfect: Littell has that maddening Continental contempt for paragraph breaks, and he details Max's neuroses with dismaying thoroughness--Max is gay and obsessed with sodomy, which he used to practice with his twin sister, for whom he still yearns (lusty twins being the last resort of the lazy novelist). Above all, there is the book's ludicrous, unnecessary length, which makes it practically unreadable...
...Greater Twin Cities United Way in St. Paul, Minn., Sue Moyer manages 44,000 volunteers a year with the help of one full-time and one part-time employee. Losing either employee would be devastating, she says. So far, there is no indication of cuts to come at her group, which just closed out its 2008 fundraiser about even with the previous year's. But Randi Yoder, the organization's senior vice president of donor relations, is bracing for a funding shortfall in 2009 even as she anticipates that volunteer numbers will rise by as much as a third. That...
...Twin Cities Connection. Southwest Airlines has extended service to Minneapolis-St. Paul, with eight daily flights to Chicago's Midway, where you can pick up connecting service to other destinations, including San Francisco, Denver and Philadelphia...
...Although Sinn Fein is firmly wedded to the political process, some Republicans still accept the old twin-track approach of combining the bullet and the ballot. "I recognize the Irish people have an absolute right to take up arms against British rule," says Richard Walsh, spokesman for one such party, Republican Sinn Fein. Walsh says support for the dissidents is growing. "It's inevitable that more people are becoming disillusioned with the Provisionals. They've been lying to their own people for decades now. The traditional base [is] deserting them ever since they decided to recognize the British state...