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At White House, liberal hawks ascend
With his decision to elevate Susan Rice to become his national security advisor and the nomination of Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, President Obama is not simply rewarding the loyalty of two women who have backed him from the...
Tags: George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements, Ronald Reagan, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Global Voices: An artist's take on dictatorship's legacy
Anila Rubiku grew up in a country that no longer exists, at least not the isolated, repressed and paranoid state that was Albania before Eastern Europe’s anti-Communist revolutions. The Balkan country that broke away from its iron-fisted mentors...
Tags: Interior Policy, Albania, Arts, Fine Artists, Political Systems
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13 killed in Serbia shooting spree
A 60-year-old man gunned down 13 people, including six women and a child, as he went on a shooting spree from house to house in a quiet village near Belgrade on Tuesday before trying to kill himself and his wife, police and hospital officials said....Tags: Interior Policy, Murder, Shootings, Personal Weapon Control, Politics
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Move over Dracula, tourists flock to see Bulgarian 'vampire'
World NowThe discovery last week of a 700-year-old skeleton with metal stakes where his heart had been has stirred a bout of vampire-mania in Europe and attracted flocks of tourists to the churchyard grave site in Bulgaria's Black Sea port of Sozopol. So keen is... -
Pain now or pain later? Europeans prefer putting it off
World NowWith more than half of the 17 Eurozone countries slipping back into recession in recent months and popular discontent reaching a crescendo, overseers of the European common currency may be more likely to heed the hurting countries' calls for stimulus... -
Beet poetry
My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than a bird's eye; and the plain, milky, peasant...Tags: Sour Cream, Potatoes, Alcoholic Beverages, Soups, Turnips
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Beet poetry with borscht
My paternal bloodline brims with soup: barley stews studded with black mushrooms and opaque as porridge; the thin tomato broth of our Polish Christmas Eve vigil, swimming with dumplings no bigger than a bird's eye; and the plain, milky, peasant...Tags: Sour Cream, Alcoholic Beverages, Soups, Garlic, Pasta
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'Community' recap: Bromance, romance and Shirley's baby daddies
Show TrackerThe Greendale gang throws Shirley and her baby daddies a shower, Chang tries to be a responsible dad and fails, and Britta's love life takes a horrifying turn on the "Community" episode "Custody Law and Eastern European Diplomacy."... -
Richard Holbrooke's diplomatic memoir
Jacket CopyRichard Holbrooke, who died today, wrote an important diplomatic memoir, To End A War, about his involvement in Bosnia.... -
ARAB WORLD: Protests in Algeria and Yemen draw inspiration from Tunisia uprising
Babylon & BeyondActivists in Yemen, Jordan, Algeria and even Albania took to the streets this weekend demanding democratic reforms in their countries. Some expressed explicit support for the Tunisian people, calling for similar uprisings in their own countries. Others... -
Pepperdine Law School names federal judge to replace Kenneth Starr as dean
L.A. NOWPepperdine University has named a federal appeals court judge from Kansas to head its law school, replacing former special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. Judge Deanell Reece Tacha of the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals will start work June 1, the...... -
PASSINGS: Patriarch Pavle, Paul Wendkos
Patriarch Pavle
Serbia's Orthodox leader
Patriarch Pavle, 95, who led Serbia's Orthodox Church and called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic conflicts of the 1990s but stopped short of openly condemning Serb nationalism, died in his...Tags: Roman Catholicism, NATO, International Court or Tribunal, Health, Documentary (genre)
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