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Dynamic Duos play it fast and loose at Jazz Showcase
The very loose, somewhat rough, thoroughly enjoyable show that unfolded at the Jazz Showcase on Thursday night did not follow the club's usual format. Instead of featuring a main attraction, the whimsically titled "Dynamic Duos" show featured two...
Tags: Thelonious Monk, Music Industry, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck
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Obama's Middle East Policy In Tatters
The Hartford CourantIn the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations...Tags: Movies, Separation of Church and State, Democratic Party, Google Inc., Vladimir Putin
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McManus: Mosque and state
At a conference two years ago, I sat in on a meeting between U.S. officials and young Islamist politicians from Tunisia, Jordan and other countries in the Middle East. The Islamists wanted to know: Would the Americans allow them to run in free elections,...Tags: Islam, Parliament, Politics, Libya, National Security
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Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears
We may be the world's only remaining superpower, but we've been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.
Tunisia held its revolution without American help, unless you count Facebook and Twitter. In Egypt, President Obama probably...Tags: Crisis, Religious Conflicts, Politics, Mitt Romney, Democracy
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Doyle McManus: Al Qaeda's very bad year
Al Qaeda is having a very bad year. And from the terrorists' standpoint, the death of Osama bin Laden isn't even the worst of it. The biggest potential blow is the spread of democratic politics in the Arab world. If it succeeds, Al Qaeda will be...Tags: Islam, New York, Osama bin Laden, Terrorism, Saudi Arabia
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Two killed as Tunisia protest against film spirals into violence
World NowTwo protesters were killed Friday after a massive protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis turned violent, devolving into chaos after protesters scaled an embassy wall and set off a huge explosion with a Molotov cocktail.... -
Mideast violence shows 'Arab Spring' still a work in progress
World NowGlobal Focus: Anti-American violence sweeping the Muslim world has brought a sobering reminder in Washington and the West that the heady revolutions of the Arab Spring that threw out entrenched dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have yet to achieve... -
Tunisia woman accused of indecency after alleged rape by police
World NowHundreds of protesters thronged to a Tunis courtroom Tuesday as a woman and her fiance who accused police officers of rape and extortion defended themselves against allegations of indecency. The case has outraged Tunisian feminists and human rights... -
Calls to protest movie mocking Muhammad spread to Algeria, Iran
World NowThe day after outraged Egyptians scaled the walls of the American Embassy and Libyan militants attacked and burned a U.S. consulate, protests and denunciations against an amateur movie mocking the Islamic prophet spread across the region, spurring... -
Must Reads: Hugo Chavez, Hillary Clinton and a tilting Tunisia
World NowFrom the hopes for Mogadishu to the barbs of the Venezuelan election, here are the five stories you shouldn't miss from the past week in global news.... -
Israel admits responsibility for 1988 assassination
World NowMore than 24 years after Palestinian military leader Khalil Ibrahim Wazir was assassinated in Tunisia, Israel acknowledged for the first time that its spy agency Mossad carried out the killing....
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