Polls describe a city and a nation that have not fully recovered emotionally from the events of 9/11, and do not want to forget.
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The 9/11 Decade: The 9/11 Decade: Polls Show We Feel Safer, but Still Wary
Sure, we’re a landscape of khaki and pinstripes. We have more policy analysts per square mile than New York has tortured artists. The fashion world laughs off our annual glitter gala — the White House Correspondents’ dinner — as the “nerd prom.” But make no mistake: Wonky Washington is seriously weird. Just check out the events of the past few days. The sad death of Georgetown socialite Viola Drath revealed the strange life led by her husband/alleged murderer as a fictitious Iraqi general. Then there’s the woman who’d already been arrested once for whacking away at art and then returned to the National Gallery of Art to launch a second attack. Read full article > >
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Pink river dolphins are among species recovering from last year’s Amazon drought, conservationists find, but how resilient can wildlife be to extreme weather events?
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Amazon drought: How wildlife is recovering
Pink river dolphins are among species recovering from last year’s Amazon drought, conservationists find, but how resilient can wildlife be to extreme weather events?
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Amazon drought: How wildlife is recovering
It turns out that the attack on Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad was live-tweeted by a Pakistani man-although he didn’t realize the significance of the events he witnessed. Sohaib Athar, an IT consultant, tweeted at 1 a.m. local time Sunday that a…
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Man Live-Tweets Bin Laden Attack
The widow of County Antrim man Geoff Kerr has said the events of the night he was murdered are “burned into my very soul”.
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Murder ‘burned into widow’s soul’
The International Commission for Labor Rights (ICLR) sent a notice to the Wisconsin Legislature, explaining that its attempt to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers is illegal. Anyone who has watched the events unfolding in Wisconsin and other states that are trying to remove collective bargaining rights from public workers has heard people protesting the loss of their “rights.” The ICLR explained to the legislature exactly what these rights are and why trying to take them away is illegal. The ICLR is a New York-based nongovernmental organization that coordinates a pro bono network of labor lawyers and experts throughout the world. It investigates labor rights violations and issues reports and amicus briefs on issues of labor law. read more
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Assault on Collective Bargaining Illegal, Says International Labor Rights Group
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee pulled back Tuesday a bit from his comments earlier in the week about President Obama’s childhood and Natalie Portman’s pregnancy, and blamed the criticism and backlash on the media’s portrayal of the events. On his…
Washington lobbyists for Arab nations are in a precarious spot as they try to stay a step ahead of the events without being seen as aiding despots.
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Arab Unrest Puts Their Lobbyists in Uneasy Spot
Could Wisconsin be the Tunisia of U.S. labor protests? This, says The New York Times, is the inevitable question raised by the events of the last few days. In Ohio, Tennessee, and Indiana newly elected Republican lawmakers are facing off against unions…
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Is WI the Tunisia of Labor Rights?
President Obama offered Egypt “whatever assistance is necessary” and said the events of the past few days have made clear that nothing but genuine democracy would satisfy its people.
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President Obama Praises Egyptian People and Army
“The Arab world is on fire,” al-Jazeera reported on Jan. 27, while throughout the region, Western allies “are quickly losing their influence.” The shock wave was set in motion by the dramatic uprising in Tunisia that drove out a Western-backed dictator, with reverberations especially in Egypt, where demonstrators overwhelmed a dictator’s brutal police. Observers compared the events to the toppling of Russian domains in 1989, but there are important differences. Crucially, no Mikhail Gorbachev exists among the great powers that support the Arab dictators. read more
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Noam Chomsky | "The Arab World Is on Fire"
The impressive scale and breadth of the events planned to honor Reagan in 2011 speaks to his enduring influence in American politics.
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Lavish Centennial Plans Testify to the Strength of Reagan’s Influence
Scott Nelson, who has been in Cairo for a decade, finds reason for very cautious optimism in the events that have upended his adopted home.
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Lens: Cairo Photographer Sees Hope in Turmoil
Mayor Bloomberg better keep his eye on this one: The southern United States has been hit by a rare snowstorm, with parts of Atlanta getting up to three inches of snow. “”We don’t have weather events like this,” said Atlanta’s mayor. The governors of…
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South Hit by Rare Snowstorm
The 9/11 Decade: The 9/11 Decade: Polls Show We Feel Safer, but Still Wary
Friday, September 9th, 2011Assault on Collective Bargaining Illegal, Says International Labor Rights Group
Sunday, March 13th, 2011Lavish Centennial Plans Testify to the Strength of Reagan’s Influence
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