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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
1 RelatedTime
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
3 RelatedEconomist
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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
1 RelatedEconomist
IT WAS an unusual book launch. Journalists jammed themselves into a suite of overcrowded rooms at the headquarters of Berlins 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...