Oct 3, 2011
|Blog| Cars.com
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KickingTires
National gas prices continue to fall because of more evidence of a weakening economy and increased stability of international oil sources. The national average gas price now stands at $3.42 a gallon, according to AAA. That???s a drop of about......
Feb 5, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
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William Pfaff
PARIS -- Military interventions by powerful nations into lesser ones, such as now continues in Mali (and Afghanistan), and is being urged by many into the Syrian civil war, are inherently reckless since even the most powerful states can have the whole...
Nov 15, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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I was in New York City last week.
On Tuesday, Election Day, CNN had big screens in Times Square, and I joined the folks watching the returns. We cheered a lot, especially when CNN turned cameras on us.
On Wednesday, a nor'easter struck NYC. I can't...
Jan 15, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
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American Voices
PARIS -- Socialist French President Francois Hollande is in the pilot's seat in the world's latest military incursion. We're not used to seeing the French lead the way into battle, but it's becoming increasingly frequent.
Some 63 percent of the French...
Jun 21, 2012
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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There are two guaranteed ways to diminish marital bliss in a certain family.
The first is to say something rotten about my wife's beloved Democratic Party, which is tied for first place, with the Republican Party, when it comes to the most worthless...
Aug 17, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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World Now
Mali crisis: As Mali remains wracked by infighting and has failed to reverse a takeover of the north, the number of people pushed out of their homes has soared and more children are being recruited as fighters, United Nations agencies warn....
Oct 15, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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World Now
Religious extremists who hold the northern stretches of Mali in their grip promised revenge attacks against the French after the European country pushed for military action to eject them. “They are the kind of people with whom nothing works except...
Oct 12, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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World Now
The United Nations Security Council took a key step Friday toward approving military action in Mali, where religious extremists have capitalized on a Tuareg rebellion and political turmoil to seize much of the north. The resolution does not give the green...
Sep 26, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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World Now
The question of how to help Mali cope with rebels, the aftermath of a military coup and religious extremists, is slated to be taken up Wednesday at the sidelines of the United Nations, at a closely watched meeting on security in the troubled Sahel....
Aug 22, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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World Now
Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's announcement that all death row prisoners will be executed next month has drawn condemnation from human rights groups and foreign governments....
Sep 12, 2012
| Allentown Morning Call
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Watchdog with Paul Muschick
You can find almost anything on Craigslist, including a place to live. But before you hand cash to someone offering a home or apartment for sale or rent, confirm one important point: that the seller/renter actually owns the property and......
Oct 31, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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World Now
Global Focus: “A quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.” That was how British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain saw the Nazi threat against the Czech Sudetenland in 1938, a sentiment freshly evoked among war-...
