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Archive: Acclaimed Reporter Killed in Russia
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA prominent Russian journalist known for reporting of human rights abuses in war-torn Chechnya was shot and killed Saturday in her apartment building in what colleagues and authorities described as an apparent assassination. Anna Politkovskaya, 48, was...Tags: Moscow (Russia), Democracy, Justice and Rights, Health, Journalism
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Gorbachevs heir
One year ago this month I found myself in the unusual position of hosting lunch for Mikhail Gorbachev. It was a work meeting at the L.A. Times, not some kind of rubber-chicken tribute (the former Soviet president was in town to talk up his Green Cross...Tags: Germany, Moscow (Russia), Democracy, Documentary (genre), Garry Kasparov
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Obama, be like Reagan
The inclination with any new president is to define him by those who came before. So we graft Barack Obama's head atop the black-and-white, cigarette-puffing image of Franklin Roosevelt (as Time did), or we dress him up as George Washington (as the New...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Global Change, Economy, Business and Finance, Economic Policy, Weather
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Gen. Valentin Varennikov dies at 85; director of the Soviet war in Afghanistan
Associated PressRetired Gen. Valentin Varennikov, who directed the Soviet war in Afghanistan and joined the rebellion against Mikhail Gorbachev that sped the collapse of the Soviet Union, has died in Moscow. He was 85. Varennikov, a hawkish World War II veteran, died...Tags: Health, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Coup d'Etat, Veterans Affairs, Elections
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Communism's grim toll
ROBERT SERVICE is a professor of Russian history at St. Antony's College, Oxford, and author of the recently released "Comrades!: A History of World Communism."WHEN President Bush declared, at Tuesday's dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington, that communist regimes had been responsible during the 20th century for taking the lives of 100 million innocent people, he did not so much...Tags: Democracy, Disasters and Accidents, Forests, Minority Groups, North Korea
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Carl Karcher, 90; entrepreneur turned hot dog stand into a fast-food empire
Special to The TimesCarl Karcher, who parlayed a single hot dog pushcart into a chain of more than 1,000 fast-food restaurants bearing his name, died Friday. He was 90. The affable, burly entrepreneur, known to millions as the jovial television pitchman for the Carl's Jr....Tags: Companies and Corporations, Minority Groups, Justice System, Children, Christianity
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Obama and foreign policy: It shouldn't be personal
When President Obama looks into the eyes of foreign leaders in the months ahead, he should search out their interests, not the depths of their souls.
President Bush found himself basing foreign policy too much on personal relationships rather than on the...Tags: Civil Unrest, Nouri Maliki, Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, Kim Jong Il
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Cherie Blair gets personal in 'Speaking for Myself'
If you believed half the snarky descriptions the British press has slung at Cherie Blair, you'd have expected her to arrive in Southern California astride a broomstick, accompanied by flying monkeys.
Happily for the wife of Britain's former prime...Tags: Justice and Rights, Human Rights, Tony Blair, Services and Shopping, Civil Rights
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Second-term lessons from the Gipper
Like george w. bush, Ronald Reagan began the final two years of his presidency at low ebb. In the November 1986 election, Democrats recaptured a Senate majority, providing them complete control of Congress for the first time in Reagan's presidency. Almost...Tags: Robert Byrd, Laws, National Government, Political Candidates, Parliament
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Ronald Reagan Dies at 93
Times Staff WriterRonald Reagan, the Hollywood actor who became one of the most popular presidents of the 20th century and transformed the political landscape of an era with his vision of conservative government, died Saturday at his home in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Los...Tags: Inflation and Deflation, National Security, Pneumonia, Students, George Lucas
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A Cold War Hawk Who Set the Stage for Peace
Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — When Ronald Reagan entered the White House in 1981, the United States faced two major foreign policy challenges: the generation-long Cold War with the Soviet Union, and an unfamiliar new threat from militant Islamic movements, which had...Tags: National Security, St. Louis Cardinals, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Sports, Diplomacy
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An Environmentalist Governor Who Raised Taxes When Needed
Times Staff WriterWhat history will remember about Ronald Reagan — and should — is that he won the Cold War. But Californians will remember something more: that as governor, he created the mood that led to the state's anti-tax revolt, preaching limited...Tags: Education, Defense, History, State Budgets, Politics
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