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Civil War

Billboard truce: Beirut scraps irksome posters

In this Sept. 26, 2008 file photo, Sunni Future Movement members take down pictures of their leader, Saad Hariri from the streets in Beirut, Lebanon. A campaign to remove the controversial posters, flags and pictures of top...

Arms case upsets Angola

Luanda - Angola is pulling out the stops to bury an arms case now before French courts in which President Jose Eduardo dos Santos is suspected of receiving millions in kickbacks, sources say. State media is silent on the case,...

Saudi and Sudanese Writers Warn Of 'Shi'ite Octopus' Taking Over Sudan

Saudi and Sudanese Writers Warn Of 'Shi'ite Octopus' Taking Over Sudan The religious rift between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the Middle East, and the tension between the Arab countries, particularly the Gulf states and Egypt on the...

Crisis, what crisis?

Going happily down the low road Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin addresses a crowd in Strongsville, Ohio, Wednesday.AP Welcome to the new American Civil War, circa 2008. We're in the middle of one of the...

Lincoln as war president

Robert W. Johannsen Oxford University Press, 327 pages Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America Andrew Ferguson Atlantic Monthly Press, 279 pages Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief James M. McPherson...

Ivory Coast land tensions fester

By David Lewis Fengolo, Ivory Coast - The road that snakes past stalls piled with bananas, charcoal and dried fish through Fengolo village in western Ivory Coast looks peaceful. Elders from Fengolo's rival communities - the...

Review: The American Future: A History by Simon Schama

Simon Schama doesn't just write history, says Raymond Seitz, he wants to star in it There's nothing like a television camera to make a historian go all giddy and coy, but in this case we have Schama Unbound. His latest book is...

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING PRESIDENT (David Shribman)

David Shribman - It is one of the great American stories, involving three great Americans and perhaps the most valuable piece of real estate in the United States. The principals were Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt along with...

Danger Ahead for the Most Dangerous Place in the World

Sunday, October 12, 2008; Page B03 Here's an alarming thought: Pakistan is in even scarier shape than most of the so-called experts are willing to admit. Today's ongoing crisis -- marked by a rash of suicide bombings, the...

Spend Bailout Cash On The Middle Class

The Nation: You never hear Big Business decry "big government" when government comes to the rescue on their behalf. Why should the taboo against big government be applied when there is talk of helping the middle class?

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