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Future in electoral politics for Chilean student leader Camila Vallejo?
World NowCamila Vallejo, the Chilean student leader who broke into the international limelight last May when she led hundreds of thousands of student demonstrators in a call for education reform, visited Mexico last week.... -
Aung San Suu Kyi gives Nobel acceptance speech 21 years later
World NowAung San Suu Kyi makes her Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech Saturday, 21 years after she won the award. The Burmese democracy activist, who spent most of the last two decades under house arrest, was unable to accept the award in 1991.... -
Kirk Douglas on the blacklist: Why Hollywood showed so little courage
24 FramesKirk Douglas has written a lively new memoir about one of his greatest triumphs. Titled “I Am Spartacus!” it recounts how Douglas helped break the midcentury anti-communist blacklist by secretly hiring Dalton Trumbo to write “Spartacus,&... -
Shanghai stock market closes with a spooky echo of Tiananmen Square
World NowWhether a cosmic joke or coincidence -- or as some wags suggested, an act of God -- the Shanghai stock market index fell 64.89 points on Monday, which happened to be June 4, the 23rd anniversary of the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators at... -
Ex-envoy to Egypt calls for 'time out' in funding political NGOs
World NowU.S. funding of pro-democracy NGOs working in Egypt should be suspended while Egypt is suffering political upheaval, a former U.S. ambassador to Egypt says.... -
New trial date set for pro-democracy activists in Egypt
World NowA criminal trial against pro-democracy workers, including two Americans, was adjourned until next month in a case that has upset relations between Egypt and the U.S.... -
Tiananmen activist found hanged in Chinese hospital room
World NowIn a tragic coda to the 23rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, a veteran activist was found hanged to death in a hospital room on Wednesday morning. Li Wangyang, 62, was a labor activist from Hunan province who led workers in sympathy protests... -
Late Night: Jon Stewart clarifies his support for 'socialism'
Show TrackerAccording to Jon Stewart, "A socialist is someone who wants to spend government money on things you don’t like."... -
First Impressions: End of Communism menu
Daily DishJohn Sedlar's Rivera restaurant is offering a special End of Communism menu.... -
How much has Obama learned on the job?
WASHINGTON — Our political system is not accustomed to the kind of battle that is going on now. President Barack Obama has been slow to adjust to it.
The voters are understandably mystified and frustrated. In the meantime, the economy sits on the...Tags: Parties and Movements, Politics, John Boehner, Republican Party, Federal Reserve
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BWI flights to Cuba to start in March
A Tampa-based company plans to begin offering flights next spring from BWI-Marshall Airport to Cuba, where travel has been restricted since 1961, shortly after Fidel Castro took power and nationalized U.S.-owned businesses.
But visitors shouldn't count...Tags: Religion and Belief, Johns Hopkins University, 2010 Census, Christianity, Air Transportation
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GUILTY
Tribune staff reportersA federal jury Monday convicted Rod Blagojevich of sweeping corruption, putting an end to a tragicomic legal and political drama that brought down Illinois' showy and would-be populist former governor. In its 10th day of deliberations, the 11-woman, one-...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Chicago, Executive Branch, George Ryan, Jesse Jackson, Jr.
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