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Dissing Obama on the Middle East
When a joint session of Congress gave repeated applause to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, it was a clear message to President Obama whose side they were on. Netanyahu was there at the invitation of Republican leaders, who wanted to make a point that they disagreed with the president’s proposed rules for restarting peace talks between the…
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Goodluck Jonathan Sworn in as Nigeria's President
Heads of state from 25 countries and thousands of guests flocked to Nigeria’s capital of Abuja Sunday to bear witness to the swearing in of Goodluck Jonathan as Nigeria’s president and 14th head of state. Flanked by two white-wigged judges and under heavy security, Jonathan took the oath of office as leader of Africa’s most populous country. While observers…
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Buyer of Houston Astros Has History of Discrimination Charges
Jim Crane, who lost out on an opportunity to buy the Texas Rangers last year, has acquired the Houston Astros for $680 million. The Houston freight executive lost out in his bid to acquire the Rangers last year, not just because he was outbid but because of a history of charges of racial discrimination in hiring…
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Will Strauss-Kahn Sex-Assault Charge Spark Global Power Shift?
Imagine that you’re one of the most powerful men on the planet, flying first class to Paris on Air France out of the pristine and elegant Terminal 1 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. Then imagine cops barging into the champagne-and-cashews atmosphere of the first-class cabin just before the doors shut to escort…
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Martelly Sworn in as Haiti's President
Michel Martelly was sworn in as Haiti’s newest president Saturday before 2,000 guests, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton and French Foreign Minister Alain Juppé. The 50-year-old singer, popularly known as Sweet Micky, faces the monumental task of managing Haiti’s recovery from the devastating 2010 earthquake that killed at least 220,000 of his fellow citizens…
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Fifty-Five Years After Enrolling, a 73-Year-Old Gets Her College Diploma
Burlyce Sherrell Logan got her diploma today, at age 73, 55 years after she entered the University of North Texas. She’s never forgotten the chilling words of the university’s president that September 1956. From the New York Times piece by Tamar Lewin: ” ‘There are some people here — you know who you are —…
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I'm Not the French Obama!
Alain Dolium is almost an oxymoron: He’s a black French politician. A businessman and candidate for France’s National Assembly in 2012, Dolium is indeed a rare breed. Despite the country’s rich mix of whites, blacks from Africa and the Caribbean, and an Arab-Muslim population of more than 5 million, the French political establishment is almost…
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Osama bin Laden Is Dead, President Obama Declares
Osama bin Laden is dead. President Barack Obama went on television late Sunday night to declare that the Saudi Arabian mastermind of the 9/11 attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon has been killed in Pakistan. “Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States…
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France's New Racial Crisis: Soccer
A news report that top French soccer officials were considering racial quotas to limit the number of black and Arab players in national training programs has set off a furor in France. Officials have denied the report by investigative news site Mediapart, which quoted what it said were minutes from a Nov. 8 meeting that…
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Is Barack Obama Finally an American?
Does Donald Trump have any sense of decency? He declared this morning that he was “proud” of himself for forcing President Obama to make his detailed birth certificate public. The president of the United States had to “prove” that he was actually a United States citizen, two years into his term. “We do not have…
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