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If you’re looking for someone to loathe, I have a strong candidate to offer: Richard Falk, the United Nations Human Rights Council’s “special rapporteur” for the Palestinians. Falk has pursued a lon...
Updated : 2013.05.06 19:58
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PARIS ― In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing, it’s only natural to ask why some terrorists are only caught after they’ve inflicted carnage on innocent civilians. What went wrong? Here are a fe...
Updated : 2013.05.06 19:56
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LONDON ― As Syria’s civil war has progressed, the West’s views on arming the opposition have become increasingly confused, which reflects the growing muddle on the ground. While President Bashar al-A...
Updated : 2013.05.06 19:56
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NEW DELHI ― Stoking tensions with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines over islands in the South and East China Seas has not prevented an increasingly assertive China from opening yet another front by...
Updated : 2013.05.06 19:56
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The accomplishments of the first 100 days in office are a favorite benchmark for democratic leaders. It’s thought to offer a preview of his or her worldview, ambition and political fortune. So, view...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:53
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The Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame “foreigners” and look for ways to fortify ourselves agains...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:53
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NEW YORK ― At the conclusion of their summit in Durban in March, the leaders of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) announced their intention to establish a New Development Ban...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:52
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving, younger brother accused in the Boston bombings, migrated from Russia to America at the age of 8. Seung-hui Cho, who committed the Virginia Tech massacre, migrated fr...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:52
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Many people have at some point in their lives experienced the curious condition of being unable to tell whether they were awake or still asleep. Some may do so while encountering a talking cat on the...
Updated : 2013.05.05 19:52
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By now, you’re probably tired of all the back-and-forth on Reinhart and Rogoff. That would be Harvard University’s Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, the economists who co-authored the 2009 best-sel...
Updated : 2013.05.03 20:58
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WASHINGTON ― America’s top intelligence official said Thursday there isn’t any evidence so far that the Boston Marathon bombers had help from foreign terrorist networks. “At this point I haven’...
Updated : 2013.05.03 20:58
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In 1999, President Bill Clinton set out to right a wrong: the government’s widespread discrimination against black farmers, particularly in the South. The victims had applied for farming loans but, o...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:49
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NEW YORK ― When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen. Twelve years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the country was saddened, but i...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:49
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Two young passengers on Taiwan’s Kaohsiung Metro recently got themselves into trouble for engaging in oral sex on the train. The action of the Internet pals ― he a college sophomore and she a high sc...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:48
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Kathmandu-based journalist Ghanashyam Khadka’s expulsion from an open hearing presided over by Justice Girish Chandra Lal and Justice Tarka Raj Bhatta on Monday at the Supreme Court can only be descr...
Updated : 2013.05.02 19:48
