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On this date: Nov. 30
1782: Americans and British sign preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending Revolutionary War. 1838: Mexico declares war on France after French occupation of Veracruz. 1939: The Soviet Union invades Finland. 1990: President Bush announces he will send...Tags: The White House, Government, George Bush, Bill Clinton, National Government
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Rocket attack near UN compound in Iraq kills 2
By KIM GAMEL | The Associated PressBAGHDAD — An Iranian-made rocket exploded Saturday near a U.N. compound in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, killing two foreign catering employees and wounding 15 others, according to U.N. and military officials. The attack comes as...Tags: Armed Conflicts, United Nations, Wars and Interventions, Metal and Mineral, Civil Unrest
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Israel kills 4 Palestinians as rocket attacks resume
The Associated PressAn Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinian militants Sunday as they fired mortars from the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Hours earlier, another group of militants had struck Israel in a separate rocket attack. The violence was the latest in...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Mahmoud Abbas, Government, Ehud Olmert, Metal and Mineral
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45 Years: A Long Time To Bury Idealism
Forty-five years ago today my heart broke. I was 15, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy shattered my world. All that optimism and all that idealism that the young president had harnessed were suddenly left with nowhere to go. Lyndon Johnson picked...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Government, Philosophy, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Assassination
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Bridge's reopening reunites Baghdad
In a symbolic gesture of unity, Iraqi authorities Tuesday reopened a bridge linking Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods that had been closed since a 2005 stampede claimed nearly 1,000 lives -- the single biggest loss of life of the Iraq war. The Imams...Tags: Guerrilla Activity, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, Terrorism
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Barack Obama, win-history 'on his side'
The Swampby Mark Silva "History is on the side of Barack Obama,'' the folks at the Gallup Poll report today, noting that only twice during the past 14 presidential elections did the candidate who was running ahead in Gallup polling a......Tags: Jimmy Carter, U.S. Electoral College, Ronald Reagan, Election Day, History
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We never promised you a Rose Garden
As I could have told John McCain had he asked, Rose Garden strategies, or in this case, faux Rose Garden strategies, really don't work with the American electorate. The strategy dictates that the presidential candidate, or incumbent president, suspend...Tags: The White House, Elections, Government, Jimmy Carter, Wisconsin
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Lebanon's leaders call for unity after bomb kills politician who helped reconcile rival groups
Associated Press WriterBEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) _ Lebanese leaders urged for calm on Thursday after the country's first political assassination in months threatened efforts to reconcile its divided factions. The killing of Druse Sheik Saleh Aridi, a senior member of the Lebanese...Tags: Parties and Movements, Democratic Party, Guerrilla Activity, Bombings
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Are you better off?
John McCain, who is in what Macbeth called "the sear, the yellow leaf" of life, has revived an oldie from seven elections ago with a campaign commercial asserting: "We're worse off than we were four years ago." This, of course, derives from Ronald Reagan'...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Edmund Burke, Bill Clinton, National Government
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Afghanistan's hidden treasures, hidden no more
Special to The TimesIN AN act that provoked worldwide outrage, the fundamentalist Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in March 2001 destroyed the monumental statues of Buddha that had been carved into the rock cliffs of Bamiyan 1,600 years ago. The shocking destruction was not...Tags: Defense, Sculpture, Archaeology, Terrorism, Natural Science
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Forget us versus them
The French historian Jacques Bainville once observed that "things have never gone well." A useful reminder. But still, the world's prospects seem to me more gloomy today than 10 or 20 years ago. Presumably they would look brighter to a communist...Tags: Philosophy, Confucianism, International Organizations, George Bush, Values
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