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Europe takes hard look at nations that allowed U.S. interrogations
Mistakes were made, but on balance waterboarding of terrorism suspects made the world safer. That is the conclusion of Jose Rodriguez, a key CIA architect of the harsh measures used to elicit intelligence from prisoners snatched from the streets of...Tags: Lawyers, Human Rights, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Prisons, Defense
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Christmas Eve golf for the president, Santa watch for first lady
The Obama family settled into their Hawaiian vacation this weekend, with the president making a late arrival thanks to the kerfuffle back in Washington over the payroll tax cut renewal.
President Obama spent part of Christmas Eve playing golf with old...Tags: Michelle Obama, Christmas, White House, Barack Obama, Religious Festivals
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PASSINGS: Lilian Jackson Braun, Harry Bernstein, Adolfas Mekas
Lilian Jackson Braun
Author of 'The Cat Who…' mystery series
Lilian Jackson Braun, 97, an author who wrote 29 books in the "The Cat Who …" mystery series, died of natural causes Saturday at a hospice center in Landrum, S.C.
Braun, who...Tags: Politics, Film Festivals, Freedom of the Press, Cat (animal), Movies
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Traveling abroad? For information, check with the country's tourist office
For tourist information about foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. Several no longer list phone numbers, so information is through their website only. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-...Tags: Belgium, Montenegro, Antigua and Barbuda, Tanzania, Israel
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Team USA vs. Lithuania chat
Lakers BlogYou can watch the game on ESPN Classic beginning at 9 a.m. or at ESPN3.com. Live Event: "Team USA vs. Lithuania" by latmedina Scheduled start: September 11, 2010 at 8:46AM PDT It looks like you might be having some trouble. Please ensure you have Adobe... -
Foreign tourist boards
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or...Tags: Belgium, Montenegro, Antigua and Barbuda, Tanzania, Israel
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What's NATO worth?
Today's question: How far east should NATO expand? Should the United States concede Russian dominance over the Caucasus in exchange for admitting, say, Ukraine into NATO? Previously, Moynihan and Meier discussed Russia’s membership in G-8 and...Tags: Russia, Wars and Interventions, Latvia, George H.W. Bush, NATO
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PASSINGS
Willard W. Scott Jr. Superintendent of West Point Willard W. Scott Jr., 82, an Army lieutenant general who led West Point through the aftermath of a cheating scandal and the introduction of coeducation, died of Parkinson's disease Jan. 1 at his home...Tags: Politics, U.S. Military, Wars and Interventions, Death, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Underrated destinations recommended by Times readers
Nature in the Eastern Sierra Nevadas. Art in a deep Polish salt mine. A friendly Wisconsin town. A hike with views of the Tasmanian coast. Readers have spanned the globe and discovered adventure, history and in many places, peace. Here are some of their...Tags: Montenegro, Southeast Asia, Harriet Beecher Stowe, South Korea, Photography
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Bohdan Paczynski, 67; a key figure in the search for dark matter and planets
Times Staff WriterAstrophysicist Bohdan Paczynski, who was the first to suggest that gamma-ray bursters lie outside the Milky Way and who revolutionized astronomy by using gravitational lensing as a tool to search for dark matter and new planets, died April 19 in his...Tags: Education, Death, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
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Rivalry Brews in Russia's Backyard
Times Staff WriterThe Cold War may be over, but U.S. and Russian soldiers are expanding outposts in this mountainous former Soviet republic about 3,200 miles east of NATO headquarters in Brussels and nearly 2,000 miles from Moscow. The U.S. opened its base three years ago...Tags: Russia, Nuclear Power, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Natural Resources
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Foreign government tourist offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or...Tags: Belgium, Montenegro, Antigua and Barbuda, Tanzania, Israel
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