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Obama: Human rights key to Asian future
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, delivering the first major public address of his Asian tour, told an audience in Tokyo -- Saturday morning there, Friday evening here in Washington -- that the United States "will always stand on the......Tags: North Korea, Hawaii, Arms, Human Rights, U.S. Presidential Election (2008)
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'The Amazing Race' recap: Who's mad at whom?
Reality CheckHeeeeere's Bucky with his take on this week's Amazing Race:This week’s leg begins with all of the teams heading to the airport to book a flight from Estonia to Prague, where they need to find a man in a Praga......Tags: Transportation Accidents, Music Theater, Theater, Czech Republic
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'The Amazing Race' recap: Almost the end
Reality CheckHere's Bucky with the week's look at The Amazing Race:(Guest Recapper’s Note: Commenters kindly pointed out last week—and correctly so—that I have been letting my personal bias creep into my weekly recap. This week, I'm going to try to...Tags: Ted Williams, Judaism, Folklore and Mythology, Czech Republic, Transportation
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Obama's new START: Health and security
The Swampby Mark Silva This is somewhat more complicated than walking and chewing gum at the same time, this achievement of the biggest healthcare initiative since Medicare and negotiation of a treaty with Russia curtailing the arsenals of nuclear arms, but......Tags: Arms, National Security, Hillary Clinton, Crime, Law and Justice, Nuclear Weapons
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Obama limiting nuclear weaponry
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 1:30 pm with statement As President Barack Obama prepares to travel to Prague this week to sign a new START agreement with Russia, the administration today is unveiling new guidelines for the deployment of......Tags: National Security, Politics, New York, Government, Russia
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Obama 'confident' nuclear pact ratified
The Swampby Mark Slva President Barack Obama voiced confidence today that the Senate will ratify the "New START'' agreement to curtail U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals. "When they have had the opportunity to fully evaluate this treaty, they will come to......Tags: Diane Sawyer , Politics, Dmitry Medvedev, U.S. Senate, Treaties
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Nuclear arsenal cut: U.S.-Russian treaty
The SwampBy Christi Parsons and updated again at 8:40 am EDT PRAGUE -- With an agreement to scale back the weaponry of the world's two greatest nuclear powers, President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a long-sought treaty that......Tags: National Security, Politics, Dmitry Medvedev, Foreign Aid, Russia
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Obama vs. Palin: 'Not... nuclear expert'
The Swampby Mark Silva In this "nuclear Spring'' of the new administration Nuclear Posture Review announced this week, the New START agreement that the American and Russian presidents signed in Prague this week and the international summit in Washington next week....Tags: Alaska, Politics, Minnesota, Sarah Palin, Government
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A card reader guides a man in finding love
“The Stockholm Octavo,” by Karen Engelman, Ecco, 410 pages, $26.99. Emil Larssen has a civil service position during the final years of King Gustav III, who was assassinated in 1793. Larssen receives 10 percent of the value of all illegal...Tags: Thriller (genre)
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Hey, that's no four-star hotel!
Albert Muick books a four-star hotel through Expedia in Prague. Turns out, it's just a three-star property. When he asks for a refund, he's sent a series of form letters. What now?
Q: I recently booked a hotel in Prague through Expedia. While perusing...Tags: Advertising, Hotels and Accommodations, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Afghanistan, Chris Elliott
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James takes on Austen
"Death Comes to Pemberly" by P.D. James, Alfred A. Knopf, 304 pages, $25.95. One of my favorite authors has written a sequel to one of my all-time favorite novels. Life doesn't get much better for book lovers! It is 1803, six years after the end of...Tags: Jane Austen, Umberto Eco, Discrimination
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A super-heated superhero summer
Backward reels the bad guy, pummeled and stunned. Round goes the good guy's granite fist, finishing its gorgeous orbit after connecting with the villain's smirking mug.
Up jump hope and inspiration, fortified by daring fictional heroes on the page and on...Tags: Harry Potter (fictional character), Philosophy, Superman (fictional character), Human Body, Massacres
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Dec 4, 2012
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Dec 13, 2011
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Jul 26, 2011
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