On New Year’s Day in 2002 we had a family dinner. As I was clearing the table before I put the apple pies out for dessert, Alicia said she wasn’t feeling well and asked to go upstairs. I said: “Sure, go ahead.” Later, when she didn’t respond[...]
Move comes within 24 hours of White House saying it was scrapping proposed missile shield facilities in Poland and Czech Republic
“I’LL never betray our fallen leaders,” the old man said proudly as he came out of the polling booth in Mpumalanga, one of South Africa’s nine provinces, shortly after dawn on Wednesday April 22nd. “I will always vote for the African National[...]
“WE HAVE been through a dark and painful chapter in our history,” said Barack Obama on Thursday April 16th, as he released memos issued by the Office of Legal Counsel during the previous administration. Dark indeed. The memos lay out, in bland legalese,[...]
IT WAS sealed with an embrace. Barack Obama concluded a wide-ranging address before the Turkish parliament on Monday April 6th by kissing the prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the cheeks. That appeared to please the parliamentarians, as did the[...]
UNVEILING America’s new strategy for Afghanistan on Friday March 27th, Barack Obama conceded that the situation in the country is “increasingly perilous” and announced a narrower strategy for his soldiers to pursue. After an exhaustive series of[...]
WILL it be second time lucky for Tim Geithner? On Monday March 23rd, six weeks after being heckled for a maddeningly vague bank-rescue plan, America’s beleaguered treasury secretary at last gave details of a public-private partnership to invest in the[...]
BARACK OBAMA is making a determined effort to engage Iran. On Friday March 20th the president of America released a videotaped message to the Islamic Republic, offering a “new beginning” in relations between the two countries. In the recording, timed[...]
HOTEL prices, just like houses and shares, are falling. The average room this year cost less than during 2008 in ten of the 12 most expensive cities surveyed by Hogg Robinson Group, a British corporate-travel firm. Abu Dhabi and Bangalore have so far[...]
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