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America isn't over
A few weeks ago, I went into a Barnes & Noble and noticed a prominent new display -- the "BRIC" table, piled high with books detailing the irresistible rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China. Nearby, another shelf sagged under the weight of more than...Tags: Politics, Wars and Interventions, Elections, Theodore Roosevelt, Brown University
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Times' Paul Pringle wins George Polk Award for SEIU stories
Los Angeles Times staff writer Paul Pringle has won a George Polk Award for investigative stories that "revealed potential corruption" in California's largest union local, it was announced today.
In August, Pringle reported that a Los Angeles local of...Tags: Television, Politics, Elections, NPR, News Media
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Archive story: Mugabe foe beaten, group says
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterZimbabwe's main opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, was severely beaten Sunday by police after being arrested on his way to an anti-government protest rally, opposition movement members said. Tsvangirai and at least 120 members of the Movement for...Tags: Health, Death, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Morgan Tsvangirai, Transportation Accidents
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Ethics' place in China's building boom
Times Architecture CriticThird in a series on the changing face of China's capital. BEIJING -- On the first morning of my recent stay in Beijing, I picked up the China Daily, the government-run English-language newspaper, to see the following phrase near the top of the front...Tags: Politics, Television, Building Material, Multi-Sport Events, Arts and Culture
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Why, the Beloved Country?
++++++++++++++++++++ || || ++++++++++++++++++++ In early may, just a month before the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, South African Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils paid a visit to Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas leader and erstwhile Palestinian...Tags: Gaza Strip, Politics, Heroism, Elections, Pretoria (South Africa)
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Helen Suzman dies at 91; South African anti-apartheid leader
Helen Suzman, an anti-apartheid activist and former longtime opposition leader in South Africa's parliament who was one of the few white elected officials to win the trust and respect of the country's black majority, died Thursday. She was 91.
Suzman,...Tags: Judges, Politics, Elections, Johannesburg (South Africa), Retirement
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The Times' 2009 wish list
The fates were kind to The Times in 2008. OK, not the financial fates, what with our parent company's bankruptcy filing and all. But five of the 31 wishes we made last year at this time came true; that may not seem like an impressive record, but in the...Tags: Health, Zev Yaroslavsky, Rocky Delgadillo, Antonio Villaraigosa, Heads of State
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Odyssey through a sad land
We are puttering along in an ancient pickup with no brakes to speak of, dodging the potholes. Every bolt seems to groan with effort, but Max Mkandla says the car is doing well. He speaks rather like a proud father discussing his brightest child. "I'm...Tags: Politics, Health, Drugs and Medicines, Nursing, Health and Medical Professionals
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Defending Thabo Mbeki
James Kirchick has pounded out several Op-Ed articles on South Africa and Zimbabwe and gotten them published in major newspapers, like “South Africa’s unseemly alliance." His claim that the leaders of South Africa's ruling African National...Tags: Politics, Elections, Parliament, South Africa, Morgan Tsvangirai
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Jacob Zuma: South Africa's enigma
Jacob Zuma, the man destined to become South Africa's president after his African National Congress party swept national elections this week, is a polygamist, a former communist revolutionary with little formal education, an alleged taker of lavish bribes...Tags: Politics, Elections, Johannesburg (South Africa), South Africa, AIDS
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In Zimbabwe's theater of fear, dissent plays on
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe stage was a small room in the Harare Central Police Station. The audience, about 20 bored policemen and plainclothes intelligence officers. The two actors were shaking, not with stage fright but the real thing. Anthony Tongani stammered and forgot...Tags: Politics, Arts and Culture, Riots, Freedom of the Press, Heads of State
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An economic noose tightens in Zimbabwe
He has lost his export customers, struggled with power cuts and shortages of foreign currency and raw materials. He has raised prices several times a month to keep up with hyperinflation. He has shrugged off government inspectors angling for bribes....Tags: Death, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Zimbabwe, Economy, Business and Finance, Government
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