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Dynamic Duos play it fast and loose at Jazz Showcase
The very loose, somewhat rough, thoroughly enjoyable show that unfolded at the Jazz Showcase on Thursday night did not follow the club's usual format. Instead of featuring a main attraction, the whimsically titled "Dynamic Duos" show featured two...
Tags: Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Music, Music Industry
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Joel Brinkley: Self-interested leaders roil chaos in Middle East
American VoicesSen. Lindsey Graham said it best. Talking about the challenges the next secretary of defense will confront, Graham, a South Carolina Republican, warned that he will face "a world on fire." So true, and the Middle East along with the larger Islamic world...Tags: Islam, Mali, Pakistan, Libya, Religious Conflicts
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Joel Brinkley: Middle Eastern governments continue to let down their people
American VoicesOver many decades, tens of thousands of ordinary citizens in Middle Eastern states had been brutalized, arrested, tortured and killed before Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit salesman, set himself on fire in Tunisia, triggering the Arab Spring. A unique pair...Tags: Islam, Newspapers, Unemployment, Libya, Barack Obama
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Obama's Middle East Policy In Tatters
The Hartford CourantIn the week following 9/11/12 something big happened: the collapse of the Cairo Doctrine, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's foreign policy. It was to reset the very course of post-9/11 America, creating, after the (allegedly) brutal depredations...Tags: Google Inc., Cairo (Egypt), Movies, Al-Qaeda, Bashar Assad
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Iraqi ironies
Victor Davis HansonAmid all the stories about the ongoing violence in Syria, the most disturbing is the possibility that Syrian President Bashar Assad could either deploy the arsenal of chemical and biological weapons that his government claims it has, or provide it to...Tags: Saddam Hussein, George W. Bush, Elections, Afghanistan, Libya
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Joel Brinkley: Arab Spring may not bring democracy and modernization after all
American VoicesEver since Islamists took office in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, they have been trying to convince us that they are advocates of moderation, democracy, women's rights and individual freedoms. And most people in the West, after jubilantly watching the Arab...Tags: Islam, Feminism, Elections, Laws, Libya
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Looking back on a good year for humankind
Tribune Media ServicesLooking back on 2011, we now can recognize that we lived through the most consequential year since the end of World War II. This was the year when the people of the world woke up and began taking hold of their fate. And by several important measures, the...Tags: Dmitry Medvedev, Civil Unrest, Religious Conflicts, Japan Nuclear Emergency (2011), The New York Times
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McManus: Mosque and state
At a conference two years ago, I sat in on a meeting between U.S. officials and young Islamist politicians from Tunisia, Jordan and other countries in the Middle East. The Islamists wanted to know: Would the Americans allow them to run in free elections,...Tags: National Security, Cairo (Egypt), Islam, Elections, Defense
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Doyle McManus: Middle East hopes and fears
We may be the world's only remaining superpower, but we've been a secondary factor in the wave of change sweeping the Arab world.
Tunisia held its revolution without American help, unless you count Facebook and Twitter. In Egypt, President Obama probably...Tags: Mahmoud Abbas, Benjamin Netanyahu, Civil Unrest, Facebook, Israel
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Doyle McManus: Al Qaeda's very bad year
Al Qaeda is having a very bad year. And from the terrorists' standpoint, the death of Osama bin Laden isn't even the worst of it. The biggest potential blow is the spread of democratic politics in the Arab world. If it succeeds, Al Qaeda will be...Tags: George W. Bush, Armed Conflicts, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Egypt
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Two killed as Tunisia protest against film spirals into violence
World NowTwo protesters were killed Friday after a massive protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Tunis turned violent, devolving into chaos after protesters scaled an embassy wall and set off a huge explosion with a Molotov cocktail.... -
Mideast violence shows 'Arab Spring' still a work in progress
World NowGlobal Focus: Anti-American violence sweeping the Muslim world has brought a sobering reminder in Washington and the West that the heady revolutions of the Arab Spring that threw out entrenched dictatorships in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya have yet to achieve...
Mar 29, 2013
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Jul 26, 2012
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Dec 27, 2011
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Oct 23, 2011
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