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Goldberg: Obama's 'idiot' defense
Although there's still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama's bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his...
Tags: Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control, September 11, 2001 Attacks, White House, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Pakistanis vote in landmark election
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the country's first democratic transfer of governance and appeared to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on track for...
Tags: Voting, Islamabad (Pakistan), Yousuf Raza Gilani, U.S. Elections, Emergency Incidents
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Obama urges new tack for Central America's drug war
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — President Obama capped a three-day visit to Latin America on Saturday by urging the region's leaders to fight the drug war not with more guns or military aid but with greater investment in infrastructure, education and energy....
Tags: Barack Obama, Central America, Mauricio Funes, Dominican Republic, White House
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Obama, Central American presidents face a difficult agenda
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Central American presidents will likely have a long list of gripes for their U.S. counterpart as they head into meetings with Barack Obama on Friday night. President Obama arrived in San Jose, Costa Rica, on Friday...
Tags: here! (tv network), Honduras, Central America, Mauricio Funes, Dominican Republic
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David Petraeus, former CIA chief and military leader, joins USC
David H. Petraeus, the former four-star U.S. Army general who resigned as head of the Central Intelligence Agency last year after confessing to an extramarital affair, will teach part-time at USC and help mentor students who are veterans, officials are...
Tags: Paula Broadwell, FBI, Colleges and Universities, Central Intelligence Agency, Princeton University
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President Obama's Mexico visit comes with backdrop of uncertainty
WASHINGTON — President Obama travels to Mexico this week amid signs that the relationship between the United States and its southern neighbor's new government faces a new period of uncertainty after years of unprecedented closeness forged by the...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama, Felipe Calderon, Government, John Kerry
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David Petraeus to teach at CUNY school in New York
David Petraeus, the former four-star general who was forced out as head of the Central Intelligence Agency because he had an affair with his biographer, has accepted a post as a visiting professor in New York. In a statement released Tuesday, Macaulay...Tags: Tampa, Princeton University, Migration, Human Interest, Adultery
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Colleges as country clubs
My daughter is a junior in high school, so I've spent part of this spring making that upper-middle-class pilgrimage known as "the college tour." But as we were led across sweeping lawns by tour guides walking backward, I found myself thinking less about...
Tags: Girls (tv program), New York University, Climbing, Students, Teaching and Learning
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A new challenge for Palestinians
The looming resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, announced last week, may be very bad news for the prospects of good governance in Palestine. But it has the potential to inject clarity and honesty into the problems of the much-too-...
Tags: Israel, Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Unity Pact (2011), Palestine, Human Interest
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The new reality at the border
The image of illegal immigration in the minds of most Americans is of poor Mexicans streaming across the Southwest border. This is not entirely wrong, but it is outdated. As Congress debates immigration reform, it is worth taking a look at what's changed....
Tags: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Congress, Migration, Politics, Immigration
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Joyce Carol Oates is at her gothic best in 'The Accursed'
"The Accursed," an astonishing fever dream of a novel, sets loose specters from the beyond to prey on innocent and guilty alike. But are there any real innocents in the diseased society Oates so scathingly depicts? Making skillful use of gothic fiction'...
Tags: Literature, Times Square, Authors, Arts and Culture
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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, John Brennan, Aircraft Hijacking, Political Dissent, Personal Weapon Control
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