Tag: politics
group name: britannica
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June 04, 2008 01:51 AM EDT --
Finally, thankfully, the Democratic primary season has come to an end. But the end came much later than most of us could have ever predicted.
With the last of the 2008 primaries in Montana . . . more
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March 12, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
A report carried by some Indian newspapers yesterday threw up some pretty amazing statistics. The report stated that 12% of scientists, 38% of doctors, 36% of the scientists at NASA, 34% of . . . more
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February 25, 2008 04:28 AM EST --
This may seem like an alarmist and premature statement, but I believe this chaotic land of diverse languages, cultures and skin tones, that we call India, is under attack - not by an outside . . . more
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September 12, 2006 10:24 AM EDT --
As the Iraq war grinds deeper into its fourth year with sectarian strife increasing, not abating, and with more and more U.S. servicemen and women dying in -- not departing from -- that nation, I find . . . more
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April 24, 2008 02:09 AM EDT --
There is a debate going on currently about the advisability of providing basic sex education to school children in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The state education minister had recently . . . more
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September 06, 2006 09:05 AM EDT --
Some years ago, my friend Peter Drucker wrote about the unnoticed magnitude of the volunteer economy in the United States. How many of us are involved in charitable activities or other social causes, even . . . more
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June 15, 2007 09:30 AM EDT --
I was reminded of the old saying"it takes one to know one", when I read about the current situation in Palestine. There is avirtual civil war going on out there, with Hamas and Fatah jockeying . . . more
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February 26, 2007 10:36 AM EST --
Gather.com recently promoted a six-part series of articles by Alan M. Dershowitz entitled "Ex-President for Sale" written in response to the publication of the book "Palestine Peace Not . . . more
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October 25, 2006 02:05 PM EDT --
This year's graduating seniors at Northwestern University heard three great leadership lessons from their commencement speaker, Illinois Senator Barack Obama. The lessons came from his own extraordinary . . . more
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May 30, 2007 03:49 AM EDT --
Ask any average American man-on-the-street to name the US Presidential candidates for 2008 and, chances are, he will recall Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, John McCain – and Al Gore. Wait a minute: . . . more
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July 09, 2007 11:15 AM EDT --
The trend in politics today is to reduce, in many cases eliminate, government services. This trend reflects the consensus amongst the population that government is inefficient, too costly, burdensome, . . . more
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October 03, 2006 05:21 PM EDT --
<h1>Report: Foley had cybersex before vote</h1>
STOCKTON, California (CNN) -- Former Rep. Mark Foley allegedly had Internet sex with a former page before going to a vote on the House floor . . . more
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July 17, 2007 02:10 AM EDT --
In recent months, outsourcing has been elevated to a whole new level. Forget about help desks and computer programmers. The Pentagon is now outsourcing its fighting men. The US army is renting out entire . . . more
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June 20, 2007 11:48 PM EDT --
Governments have been on a prolonged orgy of deregulation and privatization of services that had previously been delivered under strict controls or public ownership.
The perfect example of this is the . . . more
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December 31, 2007 08:30 AM EST --
What impact will the assassination of Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto have on the US presidential race? The simple answer is: none at all. For sure, the presidential candidates from both parties, who . . . more
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November 05, 2006 05:53 AM EST --
Probably the most important and divisive issue in the 2006 United States Congressional election is the problem of Iraq. The Democrats are portraying it as a political and military misadventure of gigantic . . . more
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March 05, 2007 12:10 PM EST --
It has been almost six years since the United States, Great Britain, Canada and a variety of other allies have been embroiled in the “War on Terrorism”. The U.S., U.K. and some other . . . more
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May 16, 2008 02:39 AM EDT --
Today's Times of India (TOI) (May 16) carries a telling graphic. It lists the nine major terrorist bombings that have taken place in the country since 2005 (the latest one occurring in . . . more
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May 27, 2007 09:26 AM EDT --
With all the current buzz about illegal immigrants in America, outsiders, like me, cannot help but ponder over what constitutes an American.
That America is a nation founded by immigrants has . . . more
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February 16, 2007 11:11 AM EST --
Would you like to pay more or less Federal Income taxes? It sounds like a silly question, but flat tax proposals would shift a sizable tax burden from the top 10% of personal taxpayers to the remaining . . . more
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