And you kill babies, too! (Off The News).

Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg, made news recently when she flew a Palestinian flag from the second floor balcony of the family apartment in Amsterdam. The wife of the ECB president has a reputation for--shall we say--candor. But what surprised many international observers was her husband's utter silence during the affair: Amid his wife's bashing of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Duisenberg said nothing. Many observers wondered why the ECB chief didn't take pains to distance himself from her recent rants.

Maybe he's just grown weary of doing so. Turns out the latest incident has opened the floodgates for a number of stories regarding...

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