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Kofi A. Annan / Washington Post:
What I've Learned — Nearly 50 years ago, when I arrived in Minnesota as a student fresh from Africa, I had much to learn — starting with the fact that there is nothing wimpish about wearing earmuffs when it is 15 degrees below zero. All my life since has been a learning experience.
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Kofi: I Learned Projection — Kofi Annan has an op-ed column in today's Washington Post that must be read to be believed. The column, which serves as a valediction of sorts, talks about what Annan has learned from his time at the United Nations. If his rule hadn't resulted in such worldwide misery …
USA Today:
Annan to blast U.S. in farewell — In a farewell speech on U.S. soil today, retiring United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan plans to deliver a tough critique of President Bush's policies. He will accuse the administration of trying to secure the United States from terrorism in part …
Sarah Liebowitz / Concord Monitor:
Rapturous reception for Obama — Americans want new kind of leadership, Illinois senator says during visit — llinois Sen. Barack Obama made his first visit to New Hampshire yesterday, drawing the kinds of crowds and news media attention usually reserved for a sitting president or a presidential nominee.
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Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Takes First Steps in N.H. — Crowds, Media Bolster Speculation On 2008 Ambitions — The political phenomenon known as Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) descended Sunday on the state with the nation's first presidential primary, drawing enthusiastic crowds and trailed by a huge media horde …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:Obama Offers Flavor of Potential Campaign
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Washington Post:
Ex-Dictator Of Chile Dies at 91 — Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule, died yesterday at a Santiago military hospital of complications from a heart attack, leaving incomplete numerous court cases …
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Michael Shifter / Washington Post:
The Best of Both Dictators — The parallels are striking: Two ruthless dictators who sacrificed human rights for political aims. Two men idolized by their followers and despised by the exiles they drove away. Two archetypes of the Latin American strongman, one in dark sunglasses, the other with that ever-present cigar.
Agence France Presse:
Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad — Iranian students have disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a prestigious Tehran university, setting fire to his picture and heckling him. — "Some students chanted radical slogans and inflamed the atmosphere of the meeting" …
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Jerusalem Post:
Holocaust conference begins in Teheran — Iran opened a conference on the Holocaust on Monday, saying it would not be an attempt to deny the World War II genocide but merely to discuss it in an unrestricted atmosphere. — However, the conference was initiated by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad …
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Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Suspicion about imams grows as terror links pile up — The grounded imams incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has been a public relations coup for the imams, their supporters and their claims that the group's only suspicious activity was saying evening prayers.
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Geoffrey Lean / Independent:
Cow 'emissions' more damaging to planet than CO2 from cars — Meet the world's top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow. — A United Nations report has identified the world's rapidly growing herds of cattle as the greatest threat to the climate, forests and wildlife.
Dafna Linzer / Washington Post:
Seeking Iran Intelligence, U.S. Tries Google — Internet Search Yields Names Cited in U.N. Draft Resolution — When the State Department recently asked the CIA for names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in a clandestine nuclear weapons program, the agency refused …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
For Iraq's Sunnis, Conflict Closes In — Mixed Neighborhoods Unravel as Shiite Militiamen Expand Violence — A few blocks from Ali Farouk's three-story home, an empty house provides a glimpse of what he fears will be the future. Once owned by a Sunni Muslim, the paint is peeling, the windows are blown out.
James Glanz / New York Times:
Iraq Is Failing to Spend Billions in Oil Revenues — Iraq is failing to spend billions of dollars of oil revenues that have been set aside to rebuild its damaged roads, schools and power stations and to repair refineries and pipelines. — Iraqi ministries are spending as little as 15 percent …
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:
The Fifth Annual Warblogger Awards (For 2006) — In order to recognize the excellent work some of our fellow bloggers have been doing, RWN has put together the "5th Annual Warblogger Awards". More than 235 bloggers were invited to vote for their favorite blog in numerous categories and 41 responded.
Michael Fumento / Fumento Weblog:
THE REAL RAMADI HAS STOOD UP — In a Nov. 29 blog, "Will the real Ramadi please stand up?" I observed that three articles on conditions in Ramadi and al Anbar Province had appeared within a week of each other giving entirely different points of view. Mine and one in the Times of London …
Judy Holland / Albany Times Union:
On the Hill, the sound of silence — John Sweeney, still reeling from re-election loss to Kirsten Gillibrand, fails to show for votes — WASHINGTON — Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding …
Daily Mail:
Diana was bugged by secret service in U.S. — American intelligence agencies were bugging Princess Diana's telephone over her relationship with a US billionaire, the Mail's sister paper has learned. — Evening Standard reports that she was even forced to abandon a planned holiday with her sons …
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New York Times:
Taliban and Allies Tighten Grip in North of Pakistan — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances …
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