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Monday, January 03, 2005

who's stingy?

It's not the primary point of Mark Steyn's article about European holidays, but this quote leapt out at me:
...though the Europeans preen about their kinder, gentler society, customers of Amazon.com have pledged more money to disaster relief in the Indian Ocean than the French government.

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