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Obama wins William Buckley Jr.'s son
The Swampby Frank James Little late to the party on this but it's still worth noting. Christopher Buckley, son of the late conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. has endorsed Sen. Barack Obama. With typical Buckleyan wit, the former Esquire editor......Tags: Barack Obama, New York Times, Government, John McCain, Philosophy
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Bush fans can't prewrite history
Some people want to rewrite history even before it happens. Just look at the growing gaggle of pundits asserting that President George W. Bush's foreign policy will ultimately be judged a success. Far more likely is that Bush's standing with regard to...Tags: Government, Civil Unrest, Penn State University, Armed Conflicts, Condoleezza Rice
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Another Olympian decries treatment by U.S. Olympic Committee staff
Special to the TimesAnother 2008 U.S. Olympian is calling for action against U.S. Olympic Committee staff members for what he calls "a culture of hostility toward athletes." Modern pentathlete Eli Bremer said Thursday he was not surprised by USOC sports performance director...Tags: Environmental Pollution, Modern Pentathlon, Culture, Multi-Sport Events, Employees
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Blackwater's bright future
From California to Iraq, business has never been better for the controversial private security firm Blackwater Worldwide. Company President Gary Jackson recently boasted that Blackwater has "had two successive quarters of unprecedented growth." Owner Erik...Tags: United Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, Demographics, Fraud, Barack Obama
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No swans in this sewer
Alittle more than 50 years ago, George C. Marshall, the greatest American general and statesman since George Washington, turned down an offer to write his memoirs for a national magazine because, he said, it was unseemly to profit from a life of public...Tags: Government, New York Times, Newspapers, Book, Books and Magazines
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PFLAG to Bush: No medal for Peter Pace
The Swampby Aamer Madhani The gay rights advocacy group PFLAG is blasting President Bush's for his decision to award the highest civilian award to Marine Gen. Peter Pace, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who once said that......Tags: Government, Central Intelligence Agency, Wars and Interventions, Awards and Prizes, Gays and Lesbians
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A cleric, a pol, a warrior
The iraqi government has decided that the moment has come to crush the Mahdi Army and the followers of Muqtada Sadr once and for all. Despite its failure to eliminate his militiamen in Basra at the end of March, the government, with American backing, is...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Civil Unrest, Economic Policy, Armed Forces, Foreign Aid
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Forget that day in court
Events in a federal district court in Texas last month should have provoked outrage across the country -- legal, judicial and moral outrage. A young American woman already denied the right to criminal justice in Iraq was insulted for a second time when...Tags: Rape, Employment Opportunities, Texas, Justice System, Wisconsin
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'No End in Sight'
Special to The TimesHollywood has taken baby steps when it comes to addressing the 4 1/2 -year-old Iraq war. Among independently produced documentaries, though, there now exists a veritable cottage industry devoted to films about the invasion, occupation and insurgency. Most...Tags: Wars and Interventions, West Los Angeles, Diplomacy, Richard L Armitage, Movies
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Movie review: 'No End in Sight'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of four) "No End in Sight," which may be the best and saddest film of the year so far, has little to with the Michael Moore approach to documentary filmmaking. In other words, it comes off as factually air-tight and blessedly free of...Tags: Government, Dick Cheney, Michael Moore, Movies, Wars and Interventions
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Jacket Copy
Shiver me timbers R.L. Stine, author of the beloved "Goosebumps" series of creepy, crawly stories, is heading to "HorrorLand." The ghoulish theme park will be the springboard for 12 new tales, with Scholastic Books planning to release the first two...Tags: Culture, Arthur Schnitzler, Books, Kevin Young, Ernest Hemingway
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U.S. limits diplomats' travel in Iraq
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer-- The U.S. Embassy on Tuesday banned diplomats and other civilian government employees indefinitely from traveling by land outside the heavily protected Green Zone as American and Iraqi officials debated the legal status of foreign security contractors...Tags: Bombings, Government, Civil Unrest, Central Intelligence Agency, Justice System
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