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    Mar 4, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Putin's Pyrrhic victory

    Vladimir Putin is poised to win more than 50% of the vote Sunday and thus be "elected" president of Russia again. That's not surprising: He has barred every pro-democracy opposition leader from running and limited the overwhelming majority of Russian citizens, who get their news mostly from the national television channels, to government propaganda. And after the spectacular and well-documented falsification of the results of the Dec. 4 parliamentary election, no one doubts that the wholly-owned Kremlin subsidiary that is the Central Election Commission will "draw," as they say in Russia, any number that the boss orders.
    Vladimir Putin is poised to win more than 50% of the vote Sunday and thus be "elected" president of Russia again. That's not surprising: He has barred every pro-democracy opposition leader from running and limited the overwhelming majority of Russian...

    Tags: Politics, Ukraine, Russia, Arab Spring, Revolutions

    2. Jul 3, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. A citizen's required reading for July 4: The Declaration of Independence

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    After all these years, do you really know what it says?...
    3. Sep 26, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. Book review: 'A World Without Islam'

    <b>A World Without Islam</b>
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    A World Without Islam Graham Fuller Little, Brown: 336 pp., $25.99 One of the sadder consequences of the near decade of war and violence that has followed the attacks of 9/11 is that so many people are convinced that we are in a clash of...

    Tags: Central Asia, Religious Conflicts, Defense, National Security, Unrest, Conflicts and War

    4. Jul 4, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. A citizen's required reading for July 4th: The Declaration of Independence (with music)

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    After all these years do you really know what it says? And a striking special video of the National Anthem by a loyal Ticket reader....
    5. Dec 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. Scholars

    Scholars Andrés Henestrosa Morales, 101; Mexican writer who promoted Zapotec culture (Jan. 10) Melville C. Branch, 94; USC professor, urban planning expert (Feb. 11) J. Kent Clark, 90; longtime Caltech English literature professor, biographer and...

    Tags: Education, Religious Conflicts, Science and Technology, History, Nobel Prize Awards

    6. Jan 5, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Kennan, Huntington and the power of intellectuals

    The conventional wisdom is that politicians aren't influenced by what the late <a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/sept98/wallace.htm">George Wallace </a> called "pointy-headed intellectuals." The recent death of Harvard political scientist <a href="http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2009/02.05/99-huntington.html">Samuel P. Huntington </a> is a reminder that the opposite is often the case. Scholars do influence the "real world" of politics -- for both good and ill.
    The conventional wisdom is that politicians aren't influenced by what the late George Wallace called "pointy-headed intellectuals." The recent death of Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington is a reminder that the opposite is often the case....

    Tags: Crimes, Immigration, Religious Conflicts, Death, United Nations

    7. Dec 28, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. Samuel P. Huntington dies at 81; author of 'The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order'

    Times Wire Services
    Samuel P. Huntington, a political scientist who argued that future conflicts would have their seeds in culture and religion rather than friction between nations, has died, Harvard University announced Saturday. He was 81. Huntington died Wednesday at a...

    Tags: Zbigniew Brzezinski, Republic of Ireland, Politics, Religious Conflicts, Death

    8. Jul 4, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. The Declaration of Independence, reloaded

    When you've spent as many hours unpacking the text of the nation's founding documents as we have, you start to notice how many concerns that were pressing when the United States was founded remain unresolved today. This is obvious with the U.S....

    Tags: United Kingdom, John Adams, Francis Hopkinson, John Witherspoon, William V Williams

    9. Aug 19, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe' by Christopher Caldwell

    When an author with Christopher Caldwell's impeccable conservative credentials glosses Edmund Burke in his book's title, it's a safe bet that he's engaged a question whose implications he believes are absolutely fundamental.
    When an author with Christopher Caldwell's impeccable conservative credentials glosses Edmund Burke in his book's title, it's a safe bet that he's engaged a question whose implications he believes are absolutely fundamental. Burke's great masterpiece...

    Tags: Immigration, Religious Conflicts, History, Local Elections, National or Ethnic Minorities

    10. Dec 30, 2008 |Resource Link| Los Angeles Times

  10. Op-Ed: Jonah Goldberg on Samuel Huntington

    11. Oct 2, 2007 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  11. The unspeakable American culture

    In a recent speech at the National Press Club, Katie Couric expressed somber disapproval of the jingoistic excesses after 9/11. Among the things that vexed her: "The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying 'we' when referring to the...

    Tags: Politics, Religion and Belief, Citizens Initiative and Recall, United Nations, John Kerry

    12. May 29, 2012 |Column| Tribune Media Services

  12. Shifting US foreign policy reflective ofor>Cal Thomview

    William Pfaff
    PARIS -- Counterinsurgency is out. Drones, assassination teams, targeted killings and special forces are in. A New York Times report on May 27 described the "existential debate" going on inside the faculty at West Point, the national military academy....

    Tags: The Pentagon, Religious Conflicts, Afghanistan, William Pfaff, David Petraeus

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