Wal-Mart’s new plans for a store at the long-neglected Skyland Town Center in Ward 7 has a major obstacle: Safeway. The supermarket, which is across the street from the proposed Wal-Mart site, has a covenant from the 1990s that prevents a competitor — such as the world’s largest retailer — from locating in certain portions of Skyland and selling groceries. Read full article > >

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Ex-general Otto Perez Molina wins Guatemala’s presidential run-off, becoming the first former soldier to lead the country since the 1990s.

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A woman who filed a sexual harassment complaint against Herman Cain in the 1990s will not tell her side of the story in public, her lawyer tells reporters.

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Since the 1990s, black Democrats and Republicans have been in an “unholy alliance” when it comes to redistricting. While it still holds in some cases, that alliance may be ending as ma­nipu­la­tion of majority-minority districts threatens Democrats chances of retaking the House majority. As African-Americans overwhelmingly vote Democratic, Republicans want to cram the Democratic vote into as few House districts as possible. There are two ways to dilute that influence in the redistricting wars: “cracking,” or spreading black voters out across multiple House districts, and “packing,” or putting as many black voters as possible into the fewest number of districts. Read full article > >

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Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers Wednesday about whether his company’s search engine stifles competition as he insisted it has not violated its famous “don’t be evil” motto. Schmidt, who had never testified on Capitol Hill, began his highly anticipated testimony by invoking the memory of Microsoft’s Bill Gates, who walked the same gantlet before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel during the 1990s. Read full article > >

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This article written by Steven A. Cook originally appeared on ForeignPolicy.com on August 2, 2011 Read any newspaper, magazine, or journal article about Turkey over the last few decades, and the odds are that the Turkish military establishment was described as “staunchly secular,” “powerful,” “autonomous,” “dominant,” or all of these things. At times, it seemed that observers were in awe of the Turkish commanders, armed as they seemed to be with an uncompromising ideology and a will to act to ensure the security of Turkey’s republican and, importantly, secular political order. The ideals, cohesion, and strength of the armed forces stood in stark contrast with the weakness and corruption — especially during the 1990s — of Turkey’s civilian political leaders.

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When I was the judge of a weekly newspaper humor contest in the 1990s, part of my job was to give readers an example of a potentially winning entry for each new competition. You might think that I’d be the best person to come up with jokes that would impress the judge, who was me. But I wasn’t. Week after week, the eventual winning entry was better than my example had been. One week, for instance, the contest was to write a riddle that is answered by a painful pun on someone’s name. My example was: Read full article > >

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Gene Weingarten: Comedy of errors

When Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States in the 1990s, he argued that if Muslim terrorists hit hard enough, the United States would retreat. The relentless pursuit that led to bin Laden’s death Sunday proved that narrative of American weakness was wrong.

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Signs of slavery abound around Charleston, but until the 1990s they were often missing from museums there.

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Critic’s Notebook: Emancipating History

A south London councillor who shot and wounded a man in the 1990s has been urged to quit after failing to disclose his conviction to the Labour Party.

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In retooling his economic team for the second half of his four-year term, President Barack Obama has gone back to the future, turning to old hands from President Bill Clinton’s administration to try to restore confidence in the slowly recovering economy. The economy flourished in the 1990s under Clinton, whose campaign song was Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop” (Thinking About Tomorrow). Never mind the tune’s refrain: “Yesterday’s gone.” read more

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Charges are possible in a Nigerian investigation into whether Halliburton, the American energy services company, paid bribes to secure a lucrative natural gas project in the 1990s, Nigerian investigators said Friday.

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The BBC says it is in “everyone’s interest” to air a Panorama investigation which alleges three senior Fifa officials took bribes in the 1990s.

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Three senior Fifa officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids took bribes in the 1990s, the BBC’s Panorama alleges.

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Polish composer Henryk Gorecki, who sold a million copies of his Symphony No 3 in the 1990s, dies aged 76, the country’s national orchestra announces.

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