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    The Preppy Handbook: Updated

    Newsweek

    Newsweek finds out on an adventure with True Prep scribe Lisa Birnbach in--where else?--Greenwich, Conn....

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    You're either with us or against us

    Economist

    POWER struggles in Saudi Arabia take place in strange places. The latest has been over the right of a handful of women to work as supermarket cashiers. Two weeks ago, a cleric, Sheikh Yousef Al Ahmed, issued a...

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    Hillary Clinton's High-Stakes Re-entry into Mideast Peace Talks

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    Time

    Hillary Clinton has been notably distant from the Middle East peace process over the past 10 months. Since her ill-fated visit to the region in late October 2009, when she overstated the significance of an Israeli concession and...

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    Talks to begin

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    Economist

    Provide Feedback Version : 3.0beta-10090321 - 3Sep10 21.04+0100 © 2010 The Economist Newspaper Limited...

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    How Barack Obama Became Mr. Unpopular

    Time

    Correction appended: Sept. 3, 2010 The Barack Obama that most Hoosiers remember voting for can still be found on YouTube. He stands before a cheering Elkhart high school gymnasium in August 2008, tireless, aspirational, promising a new America...

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    BP Threatens to Cut Aid to Spill Victims if Not Allowed to Drill

    Newsweek

    In what could be a new low at BP , the company said it may not be able to pay for the damages from the Deepwater Horizon if Congress prohibits it from drilling offshore. BP appears to be...

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    Sarrazin vs the Saracens

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    Economist

    IT WAS an unusual book launch. Journalists jammed themselves into a suite of overcrowded rooms at the headquarters of Berlin’s press corps. Security was tighter than for appearances by the chancellor. When the author at last showed up...

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    Thai Opposition Red Shirts Balk at New Army Chief

    Time

    Thailand's opposition movement expressed fears Friday over the appointment of General Prayuth Chan-ocha as the new commander of the Royal Thai Army, comparing the general to past military dictators and predicting he will be tougher on dissent. Prayuth's...

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    'The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East'

    Newsweek

    Mitchell Bard Pages: 362 | Buy this book Does Israel have a stranglehold on Washington, corrupting America's national interests? Quite the contrary, says Mitchell Bard. He argues that an insidious Arab lobby comprised of big oil companies, weapons...

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    Back to the table

    Economist

    YET another bout of Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations was launched in Washington this week amid a splurge of pious public talk tempered by sceptical punditry. Not much new in that, it seems, though it is almost two years since...

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