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Obama and Clinton - ‘The Shock Team’: From Les Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alscace of FranceToday

Now that Hillary Clinton has been nominated to be President-elect Obama’s secretary of state, there’s a new narrative going around Europe: ‘Are we ready for this?’ Jean-Claude Kiefer writes for France’s Les Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace: “The political couple, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, had better prompt Europeans to reflect quickly, shake them out of their torpor and [...]

Commerce Sec. Richardson on … RichardsonToday

Esquire scores some candid remarks from the former New Mexico Governor, reminding us yet again that Mr. Bill is both very funny, and perhaps a tad too straightforward on some topics for some people’s taste. Of course, it’s difficult to offend me — I’m a dense, insensitive man — thus, I had no problem [...]

Are Iraqis Capable of Building Their Nation?: Kitabat of IraqToday

Is President Bush being wrongly blamed for the faults of Iraq’s people? It is a provocative thing to suggest, especially for an Iraqi. But in this article from one of Iraq’s most controversial columnists, Khadir Taaher, it is Bush who is praised and Iraqis who are trashed for their failures. For Iraq’s Kitabat newspaper, Taaher [...]

Harvard Endowment Down 22% And Falling.Today

The bigger they are, the harder they fall: Harvard University’s endowment, which stood at $36.9-billion on June 30, has lost at least $8-billion in the four months since then, the university’s president says. In a letter on Tuesday to Harvard’s deans, Drew Gilpin Faust said that Harvard’s endowment had lost at least 22 percent of its [...]

Moishe Hertzberg of MumbaiToday

The two-year-old, in Israel now after his parents were gunned down last week, evokes tears and stirs a childhood memory. One day when I was ten, in a Bronx park, a band of kids from another neighborhood suddenly attacked half a dozen of us. In the melee, I was pinned against a tree by a bigger [...]