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A terrorist attack is like a national Rorschach test. Everybody sees in it what they want ― usually something that proves a point they’ve been making all along. Even before the Tsarnaev brothers wer...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:57
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PARIS ― In May 1981, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt. Thirty years later, Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Special Forces. But, looking at the world now, one could eas...
Updated : 2013.04.29 19:57
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LOS ANGELES ― Since Syria’s civil war erupted, its large chemical-weapons arsenal has haunted the conflict zone and beyond. Now Israel says that chemical weapons have been used by the Syrian regime...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:25
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“Work authorization is not meant to get you rich, it’s to let you live,” said an Egyptian asylum-seeker who fled to the United States after a radical group beat him and tried to kidnap his wife and d...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:24
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The involvement of two ethnic Chechens in the Boston Marathon bombing came as a brutal reminder of the wars that ravaged the Russian republic more than a decade ago. Less understood is that they aren...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:24
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Christine Lagarde wants her staff at the International Monetary Fund to examine what might happen to the global economy when central banks begin to raise interest rates. She’s wasting their time. If...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:23
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MUNICH ― Last summer, the financier George Soros urged Germany to agree to the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism, calling on the country to “lead or leave.” Now he says that German...
Updated : 2013.04.28 20:23
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expected a sharp debate at home when he said his country wanted to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He may not have anticipated a sharp debate in the U.S. After...
Updated : 2013.04.26 20:42
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WASHINGTON ― John Maynard Keynes once said that words should be used aggressively, “for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” That’s a starting point for an appreciation of Mervyn ...
Updated : 2013.04.26 20:42
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Four years into a so-called recovery and we’re still below recession levels in every important respect except the stock market. A measly 88,000 jobs were created in March, and total employment rema...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:36
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PARIS ― The details revealed so far in the Boston Marathon bombing case are strikingly similar to those of a high-profile case in France last year. Both exemplify the modus operandi of today’s young ...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:35
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A recent New York Times article rhapsodised about the home of Filipino artist Benji Reyes. What’s notable about the house, it said, was that it was “constructed entirely of rare Philippine hardwoods,...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:34
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Confusing signals from policy meetings last week of the Group of 20 and the International Monetary Fund reflect the global economy’s unsettled state after the nominal end of the last recession. In gi...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:34
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The tremendous success of Pee Mak is a promising sign for the Thai film industry. The film is set to earn over 500 million baht ($17.39 million), closing in on the all-time local box-office record of...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:34
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NEW DELHI ― The sea of humanity besieging the Shahbag area in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, for the last two months, has had an unusual demand ― unusual, at least, for the Indian subcontinent. Th...
Updated : 2013.04.25 20:34
