Mr. Fussell, a wide-ranging author, may be best remembered for “The Great War and Modern Memory,” his study of World War I and the influence of its horrors on art and literature.
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Paul Fussell, Literary Scholar and Critic, Is Dead at 88
While Mitt Romney has said little about his Mormon faith on the campaign trail, people who know him well call it a huge influence on his conduct and worldview.
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The Long Run: How the Mormon Church Shaped Mitt Romney
There are two ways to defend gay marriage. Argument A is empathy: One is influenced by gay friends in committed relationships yearning for the fulfillment and acceptance that marriage conveys upon heterosexuals. That’s essentially the case President Obama made when he first announced his change of views. Read full article > >
Since the founding of Washington, it has been tres facile to sense the French influence in the circles, grids and diagonals bequeathed by Pierre L’Enfant, and in recent years, it seems no office is more than steps away from a French (or French-named) place to buy a croissant. Read full article > >
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Festival celebrates French hip-hop
The State Department could jettison a multibillion-dollar training effort by the end of 2012 that has emerged as the latest high-profile example of America’s waning influence in the country.
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U.S. May Scrap Costly Effort to Train Iraqi Police
ISTANBUL — After three decades of persecution that virtually eradicated its presence, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Read full article > >
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Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood is gaining influence over anti-Assad revolt
FEW WALL STREET institutions enjoy greater prestige than JPMorgan, whose $2.3 trillion in assets make it the largest U.S. commercial bank. Jamie Dimon , the 56-year-old chief executive, is an industry hero for building a “fortress balance sheet” and steering JPMorgan through the mortgage meltdown relatively unscathed. Of late, Mr. Dimon has been deploying his influence to resist tighter federal bank regulation — specifically, the “Volcker rule,” a provision of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that would ban federally insured banks from speculating in hedge funds and the like. Read full article > >
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Editorial Board: JPMorgan’s mishap bolsters case for Volcker rule
What, exactly, is Ron Paul up to? The Texas congressman has, by all reasonable reckoning, lost his bid to be the Republican presidential nominee. Lost it big. In the GOP’s 35 primary and caucus votes , Paul has won as many as Barack Obama. Zero. Read full article > >
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Ron Paul campaign: Will his delegates influence Republican National Convention?
What, exactly, is Ron Paul up to? The Texas congressman has, by all reasonable reckoning, lost his bid to be the Republican presidential nominee. Lost it big. In the GOP’s 35 primary and caucus votes , Paul has won as many as Barack Obama. Zero. Read full article > >
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Ron Paul campaign: Will his delegates influence Republican National Convention?
Salamworld, a social networking site with Islamic influences, is due to launch in July with the hope of challenging Facebook’s supremacy.
In another sign of Washington’s growing influence as a theater town, the Kennedy Center’s highly regarded revival of “Follies” garnered an impressive eight Tony Award nominations Tuesday, making it potentially one of the most highly decorated shows of the 2011-12 Broadway season. Read full article > >
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Tony Award nominations: Led by ‘Follies,’ Washington lights up Broadway
It was a rare sight for media watchers on Wednesday: Rupert Murdoch, the indomitable head of the News Corp. empire, called before a judicial inquiry to explain how his influence has shaped Britain's media and political landscape.
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Magnate grilled over power, influence
President Obama travels to a weekend summit of the hemisphere’s leaders Friday as the head of a nation that remains in many ways the economic envy of its closest neighbors, but also one whose influence is on the wane in a rising region. Read full article > >
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U.S. on more equal footing with neighbors as Obama heads to Summit of the Americas
Scientists have begun a study to see if it is possible to influence what we dream about.
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Can you control what you dream?
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012Editorial Board: JPMorgan’s mishap bolsters case for Volcker rule
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