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This is why Jordan cant be trusted on torture
If Home Secretary Theresa May thinks the Jordanian government can be trusted not to torture its prisoners, she needs to look a little harder at the ...
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Russias Middle Class Is Prosperous but Powerless
In Moscow, they are "non-Soviet Russians." In New Delhi, they are a "political Goliath" that may soon awaken. In Beijing and Sao Paolo, they are lawyers and other professionals who complain about ...
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A deeply disturbing attack on me
Contributed by : Carol Gould First published December 12, 2012This has not been a happy few months for me; as soon as Israel is in the news I find myself in the firing line in various fora or having to take an extra aspirin to avoid a fatal heart attack listening to enraged Zionist-haters venting their thinly-disguised Jew-hatred on radio and television. What an irony! My parents never sent ...
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Response to Hungary is a Test for the EU
Enlarge Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban presents his annual state-of-the-nation speech in Budapest, February 22, 2013. The text reads: Hungary doing ...
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Patrick Chappatte Computer Piracy
Ready or not, computer piracy comes when you least expect it. Patrick Chappatte is an editorial cartoonist for the International Herald Tribune. View more of his work, visit his Web site or follow him on ...
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Globe Editorial Note to politicians Stop blaming the media for your problems
Canadian conservatives, be they mayors, MPs or senators, need to stop blaming alleged media bias for their troubles when scandals arise. In Toronto, Mayor Rob Ford and his brother Doug both claim that reports of a video showing the mayor inhaling from what appears to be a crack pipe are an attempt by a left-of-centre newspaper to undermine him. In Ottawa, Senator Marjory LeBreton claimed in a ...
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Before Midnight Jesse And Celine Are Older Now And So Are We
is information that they don't want. But it's impossible -- absolutely impossible -- to write about the movie without talking about where they stand and what the premise is. I did my absolute best to spoil as little beyond that as possible. But if it's extremely important to you not to know whether he missed the plane, whether they've seen each other in the last nine years, ...
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U.S. Congress Moves Toward Full Trade Embargo on Iran
- The U.S. Congress moved closer here Wednesday to imposing a full trade embargo against Iran and pledged its support to Israel if it felt compelled to attack Tehran's nuclear programme in ...
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Op-Ed Contributors Democracy Jobs and Growth in Europe
The economic turmoil of the past several years has pushed Europe toward greater integration, starting with financial stabilization and a banking union that is still a work in progress. Everyone now recognizes that a single currency zone without a common fiscal policy invites the kind of crisis we have all been experiencing. Europe has reached this stage grudgingly and with great strain, ...
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Uzbekistan A Massacre That Should Not Fade Into History
Eight years have passed after one of the worst massacres in the former Soviet Union since its collapse. On May 13, 2005, security forces in the city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, opened fire on protesters, the vast majority unarmed, killing hundreds of men, women and children as they tried to flee. No one has been held accountable, and the authoritarian president, Islam Karimov, has defied calls for ...
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BOOK REVIEW The Rise of the Vampire
View results THE RISE OF THE VAMPIREBy Erik ButlerReaktion / University of Chicago Press, $25, 175 pagesFascination with the undead and fear of the supernatural have filtered through the mists of time, and the vampire has become the star of a dark and bloody show still playing in the 21st century.Following the legend’s footprints in the past, Erik Butler notes that the vampire has ...
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Immigration bill a testament to compromise
Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), left, delivers remarks toward Republican Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), center, while Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) looks on during the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to work on the legislation "Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act," on Capitol Hill in ...
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In L.A. polishing up the pedways
In downtown Los Angeles, elevated pedestrian walkways - called pedways - slice the air between tall buildings on Bunker Hill, like a 1970s vision of a future metropolis. That's exactly what they were intended to be - the first phase of what would become a mechanized people mover. Those plans were abandoned long ago, but the existing 10 pedways have something of a cult following among the ...
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WLOX Editorial Remember and honor those who died serving our country
Part of the coast is being invaded this week by termites. Millions swarmed across Harrison County Wednesday night. Several WLOX viewers called our newsroom to tell us about it. One person called ...
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NAPOLITANO Tyranny just around the corner
View results A few weeks ago, President Obama advised graduates at Ohio State University that they need not listen to voices warning about tyranny around the corner, because we have self-government in America. He argued that self-government is in and of itself an adequate safeguard against tyranny, because voters can be counted upon to elect democrats (with a lowercase ';d';), not ...
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TYRRELL The beauty of confusion in officialdom
View results Where are we now in this morass of Obama administration scandals? We have The Associated Press imbroglio. We have the Benghazi imbroglio. We have the Internal Revenue Service imbroglio. Well, a synonym for imbroglio is confusion, and in all the above cases, replace the word ';imbroglio'; with the word ';confusion'; and you will get a hint of where I am going. We ...
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EDITORIAL Another crony for the Cabinet
View results President Obama’s choice of Hyatt hotel heiress Penny Pritzker as secretary of commerce, to be taken up Thursday by the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, puts Democrats on the panel between that famous rock and a hard place.Like the loyal soldiers they are, the panel’s 13 Democrats will fall in line behind the nomination but a senator with acute ...
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KLINE AND FOXX Getting politics out of student loans
View results Bipartisan compromise is tough to find in Washington right now - but when there is opportunity for agreement, we owe it to the American people to take action.In the coming weeks, millions of student-loan borrowers could see their interest rates double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. We’re in this predicament because politicians put themselves in charge of setting interest ...
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PIPES An apology posing as a bibliography
View results At this moment of sequestration and belt-tightening, the U.S. government has delivered a reading list on Islam.The National Endowment for the Humanities has joined with two private foundations, Carnegie and Duke, to fund ';Muslim Journeys,'; a project that aims to present ';new and diverse perspectives on the people, places, histories, beliefs, practices and cultures ...
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HARPER Network Bigfoots stomp on local coverage
The tornado in Oklahoma provides a classic example of how national television network news operates, depending on local reporters and camera operators until the big guns arrive to take over.Moore, Okla., is about 10 miles south of Oklahoma City, where every network has a local station, known as an affiliate, whose reporters headed immediately to the site after the twister ...
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FIELDS Barack Obama as the Great Gatsby
View results Washington is a one-industry town. The nation’s capital has wonderful art museums, concerts and theaters, but they’re only supplements to the big story playing out on the front pages - always the government. We often miss the delicious ironies and insights that the literary and artistic culture can offer with its alternative views into the behavior of our species.Having ...
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EDITORIAL California to ban fire
View results Since man first rubbed a pair of sticks together to make a fire, we’ve gathered around a campfire to cook food, enjoy good company and bask in the warmth of the glowing embers. Now the green spoilsports in Southern California want to take that all way, sending beach ring fire pits the way of the caveman.The South Coast Air Quality Management District will decide this summer ...
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Editorial Tim Murray takes his leave
Lt. Gov. Tim Murray yesterday gave the people of Massachusetts his two-week notice, thus drawing a curtain on one of the most underwhelming tenures of a statewide office-holder in recent Massachusetts history. And that’s saying something.Murray is trading the privilege of elected office for what amounts to a bigger salary and a shorter commute, resigning with nearly two years left in his ...
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A scar that stretches across continents
1976, then army chief Videla led the junta made up of the commanders of the three military forces after the coup d'etat that overthrew the democratic government of Isabel Peron. Videla, who died on May 17, may be physically no more, the 25-year-old Parodi told the audience in her acceptance speech, but Argentina is still trying to correct the historical wrongs of the regime he led for ...
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Hashimoto echoes Japans past failure
By Walden Bello The words were so brazen that they have created a firestorm globally. Characterized as "outspoken" and "brash" in the international media, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto has claimed that "comfort women" - the thousands of Asian women who were forced to serve as prostitutes during World War II - were "necessary" for the morale of Japanese ...
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Turkmenistan's new olympic development could be blessing or curse
Work has finally begun on the massive Ashgabat Olympic complex development, a US $5 billion project that aims to enhance the standing of the capital city when Turkmenistan makes a bid to host the Olympic Games.
The sports complex being built in Ashgabat will be the largest and most state-of-the-art of its kind in Central Asia, underscoring Turkmenistan’s position as a regional power due to the country’s extensive natural gas and oil reserves, while its completion will also illustrate the growing presence of the country in the international community. Read more
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