Thursday, May 24, 2012


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Anne Applebaum's Car Catches Fire

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From Britain's "Times":

The American author Anne Applebaum, wife of Radoslaw Sikorski, the Polish Foreign Minister, has been given special police protection after the engine of her jeep exploded in as yet unexplained circumstances.
 
Ms Applebaum, 45, author of a Pulitzer prize-winning history of the Soviet Gulag, was driving through the Jozefow suburb of Warsaw on Saturday when she heard a strange noise in her car and got out to investigate. Shortly afterwards the engine blew up. She was unharmed.

UPDATE: Applebaum clarifies. Her car did not explode.

-- Luke Allnutt

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