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The Syrian conflict began in January 2011 and still continues. The conflicts in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya that started around the same time did not last long because the incumbent leaders of the three...
Updated : 2013.06.17 19:48
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Let the geeks, and we use the term endearingly, argue over the changes Apple Inc. announced this week to its mobile operating system. Our focus is on something more prosaic: an advertisement ― and wh...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:28
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Conservative Republicans in our nation’s capital have managed to accomplish something they only dreamed of when Tea Partiers streamed into Congress at the start of 2011. They’ve basically shut down...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:28
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Should the U.S. be taking economic lessons from India? Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich thinks so. Perhaps not from India as a whole, but at least from the booming western state of Gujarat, which h...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:26
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PARIS ― Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor on the lam for having dumped some classified documents on the desk of a British reporter, says that he doesn’t consider himself ...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:26
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According to the literary scholar Philippe Lejeune, autobiographical texts rest on the assumption “that there is identity of name between the author (such as he figures, by his name, on the cover), ...
Updated : 2013.06.16 20:26
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For so many years, Iran has been a popular neighbor among most Arab states, largely because of its unremitting hostility toward Israel and the West. But now, the tables have turned, and its past beh...
Updated : 2013.06.14 19:56
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WASHINGTON ― Journalists have a professional commitment to the idea that more debate is better, so we instinctively side with leakers. But I’m skeptical about some of the claims of Edward Snowden, ...
Updated : 2013.06.14 19:55
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Obstetric fistula, an abdominal injury that occurs in unattended childbirth and causes incontinence, is among the most intractable challenges of extreme poverty. In Tanzania, however, a pilot progra...
Updated : 2013.06.13 19:51
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In the latest twist to the nuclear standoff between North Korea and the international community, the two Koreas have held working-level talks between the two governments, and analysts are debating th...
Updated : 2013.06.13 19:50
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Boosting ratings by courting controversy is an obvious tactic, but the public may react negatively to extreme cases of tastelessness. A man who evidently has mental difficulties triggered controvers...
Updated : 2013.06.13 19:49
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For stability in the Asia-Pacific region, it is essential that the U.S. and China ― the world’s sole superpower and the second-largest military and economic power ― take confidence-building measures....
Updated : 2013.06.13 19:49
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In one “friendly” match between two Italian clubs last January, Ghana’s Kevin-Prince Boateng of the visiting AC Milan kicked the ball into the stands and walked off the pitch in anger and disgust. He...
Updated : 2013.06.13 19:49
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The childhood dream of Zhu Qiyun was to join the Chinese Communist Party. “I was raised thinking that becoming a CCP member would bring honor to my family,” said Zhu, 35, who became a member in 20...
Updated : 2013.06.13 19:49
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Teddy Roosevelt once said “the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” Recent research suggests he may have been more right than he knew: Life’s “best prize...
Updated : 2013.06.12 20:43
