Archive for the ‘Foreign Relations’ Category
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Pot of Gold
Posted on March 17, 2011
The world celebrates St. Patrick’s Day today, as millions of Irish celebrate their national heritage. One of the most enduring myths in Ireland is of the leprechaun finding the pot...
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Winning
Posted on March 16, 2011
President Obama said last week that he was slowly “tightening the noose” around Colonel Gaddafi, the Libyan dictator. Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, said yesterday, “We have acted...
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Japan Syndrome
Posted on March 14, 2011
According to news reports, the latest earthquake pushed Japan thirteen feet closer to the United States. On an Earth that charts movement in millimeters, not yards, that is an amazing...
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Tsunami
Posted on March 12, 2011
I neglected to turn on the television this morning, and I read the paper oblivious to what was occurring on the other side of the earth. David Brooks wrote a...
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Buried in the News
Posted on March 10, 2011
The Space Shuttle Discovery completed its final mission yesterday and David Broder went to his final resting place. Somewhere in the future, some enterprising historian is going to write a...
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