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Egypt on threshold of history
Mayo on the Side: Michael Mayo | Sun Sentinel BlogsThere are some days when my commentary beat -- local/regional/Florida news -- simply gets swallowed up by larger events. This is one of those days. In this age of instant information, it's impossible to be human and not get engrossed......Tags: Entertainment, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt, Television, Cairo (Egypt)
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Gorbachev: Afghan withdrawal best
The Swampby Mark Silva As President Barack Obama weighs the U.S. military's options in Afghanistan, the White House is getting some unsolicited advice from someone who knows the territory: Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who oversaw the withdrawal of...Tags: Defense, U.S. Military, Angela Merkel, Ronald Reagan, Berlin (Germany)
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Rep. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, heads for Berlin tonight
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsState Rep. Maria Sachs, D-Delray Beach, is traveling to Berlin Monday evening to attend the 10th Annual Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, which convenes this week to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall. In an......Tags: Delray Beach, Diplomacy, Florida, Berlin (Germany), Politics
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Slain diplomat from River Forest was a girl with an adventurous mind
Before she was a young U.S. foreign service officer stationed in Afghanistan, before she and others were blown up by a bomb, before she was eulogized at Fenwick High School on Tuesday, Anne Smedinghoff was a girl. The temptation now is to see her only...
Tags: Anne Smedinghoff, Al-Qaeda, John Kerry, Explosions, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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A sensible caution, poorly stated
WASHINGTON -- People who talk incessantly often talk imprecisely, and Barack Obama, who is as loquacious as he is impressed with his verbal dexterity, has talked himself into a corner concerning Syria and chemical weapons. This is condign punishment for...Tags: Iraq, Mathematics, Diplomacy, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC
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A man and a woman, talking nukes in the woods
These days, nuclear fears have been eclipsed by economic terrors. And, despite a brief recent rhetorical resurrection by Rep. Michele Bachmann, the Soviet Union is toast. And thus Lee Blessing's 1986 play "A Walk in the Woods," once a very timely two-...Tags: Minority Groups, Celebrities, Ronald Reagan, Arts and Culture
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The privilege to be weird, and the right to be normal
Last week, while driving to work, I heard an NPR story that included snippets of an interview with a woman who had just applied for a marriage license. This would not have been newsworthy if not for the fact that she was gay. On Nov. 6, voters in...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, NPR, Gays and Lesbians, Berlin (Germany), Germany
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If Armstrong loses Olympic medal, why not East Germans?
The International Olympic Committee has a tendency to make up rules that suit its purposes. To wit: the attempt to impose a 2012 Olympic Games ban on any athlete who received a two-year doping suspension, even if that suspension expired before the...
Tags: 2012 Summer Olympics, Sports Organizations, Road Race Cycling, Cycling Trial, International Olympic Committee
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Suspicious minds: why doping always is on mine
One day at the 1997 World Track and Field Championships in Athens, Greece, the Sunday Times of London writer David Walsh asked me if I were writing about doping in every story.
This was a few years before Walsh published two books about Lance Armstrong,...Tags: Career and Workplace, Radio, Health, Sprint Cycling, Cycling
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The Scorpions are on farewell tour, but refuse to quit at Philly's Mann Center
Lehigh Valley MusicThe Scorpions may hold the answer to why Germany stands atop the crumbling European Union, still going strong: They refuse to quit. The Scorpions singer Klaus Meine, left, and guitarist Matthias Jabs at Philadelphia's Mann Center on Wednesday Brian... -
Sarajevo with tears: Another walk down Logavina Street
Jacket CopyBarbara Demick says that" real Sarajevans don’t like to talk about the war," but her book, "Logavina Street," follows the lives of a small community during the conflict. It has been re-released, with additional materials, commemorating the 20th...
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