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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Bush looks back in goodbye from Peru
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An unfamiliar emotion — wistfulness — is settling in over President George W. Bush and his White House.
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11/23/2008 04:43 AM
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APEC promises united front on global economic crisis
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Leaders of Pacific Rim nations promised to work together on further "urgent and extraordinary" steps to combat the global economic crisis and pledged to refrain from erecting new barriers to trade and investment.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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French Socialists choose a new course
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Martine Aubry was declared the leader of the Socialist Party by a razor-thin margin over Ségolène Royal, its standard-bearer in the last presidential election.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Despite army's assurances, violence at home
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Adriana Renteria's story illustrates the gaps in the way the handles domestic violence cases and the way it treats victims.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Tibetans reaffirm a conciliatory path
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After an intense debate, delegates attending a conference of Tibetan exiles recommended a continuation of the Dalai Lama's conciliatory approach to China.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Citigroup pays for a rush to risk
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Much of the damage inflicted on Citigroup was caused by errant, high-octane trading and lax oversight, critics say.
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11/21/2008 01:45 PM
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Citigroup tries to halt plunge in share price
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The huge U.S. bank may have few options left, other than a government bailout.
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11/20/2008 01:44 PM
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Retreat from Asia unlikely for embattled Citigroup
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Citigroup faces a crisis of investor confidence, but the bank is unlikely to retreat from its strongest-performing region.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Pakistanis fear U.S. collision with neighboring enemies
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There is an increasing belief among some Pakistanis that what the U.S. really wants is the breakup of Pakistan.
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11/23/2008 03:43 AM
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Airstrike kills Qaeda-linked militant in Pakistan
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The British militant, a liaison to Al Qaeda, was a key suspect in a 2006 plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Obama vows swift action on vast economic stimulus plan
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Barack Obama offered the outlines of a plan to create or save 2.5 million jobs by investing in public works and alternative energy.
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11/23/2008 12:02 AM
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Text of Obama's remarks
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A transcript of President-elect Barack Obama's radio address on Saturday as released by hie office,
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Clinton-Obama détente: From top rival to top aide
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Few are predicting that a new relationship born of mutual respect and self-interest will grow into a tight bond, but it might.
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11/22/2008 02:39 AM
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Obama goes for pragmatists, not ideologues
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The reported choices of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Timothy Geithner are as revealing of Barack Obama as they are of his appointees.
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11/22/2008 09:45 PM
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Geithner expected to get Treasury reins
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President-elect Barack Obama picked Timothy Geithner, head of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, to be his Treasury secretary, a Democratic aide said Friday.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Zimbabwe bars Carter's humanitarian visit
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President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, who at 84 clings to power after 28 years in office, barred another famed 84-year-old, former President Jimmy Carter of the United States, from entering the country.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Citigroup tries to halt plunge in share price
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The huge U.S. bank may have few options left, other than a government bailout.
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11/20/2008 01:44 PM
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Retreat from Asia unlikely for embattled Citigroup
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Citigroup faces a crisis of investor confidence, but the bank is unlikely to retreat from its strongest-performing region.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Mix-up brings China quake toll into question
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A garbled translation of an official's words ended up shifting public attention from valiant reconstruction efforts to questions about how many children perished in their poorly built schools.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Wall St. shares claw higher on Geithner report
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Skittish financial markets veered sharply upward Friday after reports that Timothy Geithner would become secretary of the U.S. Treasury. The Dow climbed almost 500 points.
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11/21/2008 07:42 AM
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U.S. needs to stop drifting
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Economists worry about lack of leadership in Washington as stock markets plunge again.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Japanese whaler and ecologists set sail for annual confrontation
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Past meetings have been dramatic, dangerous, even violent. There have been rammings, forced boardings, the firing of stink bombs and stun grenades, even allegations of gunplay.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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The 3rd piece to Congo's violent puzzle
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With the rebels on one side and the government forces on the other, the Mai Mai militia, with their guns, leaf headdresses and special potions, offer a surreal - but still deadly - dimension to Congo's civil wars.
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11/19/2008 11:34 PM
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Conflict leaves Congolese villagers in limbo
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A certain sense of desperation - and weirdness - seems to be creeping across eastern Congo as more territory slips into a jumbled world between government and rebel control.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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BBC Trust rejects BBC plan for Web video
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The move drew interest across Europe because regulators in several countries are scrutinizing public broadcasters' digital plans.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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The heavyweights around Obama
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The inspiration for Obama is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals," a riveting account of how Lincoln recruited former opponents who thought they were superior to the man who became America's greatest president.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Why so many Holocaust films now, and for whose benefit?
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This holiday season the multiplexes, the art houses and the glossy for-your-consideration ads in publications like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter will be overrun with Nazis.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Revisiting Ron Arad and his spirited showmanship
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The furniture designer and star of "design-art," Ron Arad, is the subject of a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Tibetans in exile debate independence
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Long associated with the Dalai Lama and his "middle way," the exile movement has reached a crossroads.
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11/22/2008 11:40 AM
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Tibetan exiles stick with 'middle way' — for now
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Tibetan exiles decided Saturday against pushing for independence for the Himalayan region, but for the first time in decades said they will take up that radical course if China refuses to grant their homeland autonomy soon.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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David Brooks: Obama's valedictocracy
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The next administration will be a valedictocracy - rule by those who graduated first in their high school classes. If an enemy attacks the United States during a Harvard-Yale game, we're in trouble.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Paul Krugman: The lame-duck economy
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The prospects for the economy look much grimmer now than they did a week or two ago. Yet economic policy, rather than responding to the threat, seems to have gone on vacation.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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How to get out of the mess in Afghanistan
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Afghanistan's swift unraveling has created new - and in some quarters unrealistic - enthusiasm for talks with the Taliban.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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For its online critics, China adapts response
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Leaders are being forced to react publicly to their concerns. Officials are also tailoring traditional media-control techniques to the information age.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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For Tasmanian devils, hope against a deadly disease
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A deadly cancer has preyed on the Tasmanian devil, causing it to be listed as endangered, but scientists have begun an experimental inoculation program.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Closing Guantánamo may not be easy
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Candidate Barack Obama outlined a plan to lose the detention center, but his aides now are wrestling with the thorny issues stemming from such a move.
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11/23/2008 05:31 AM
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Ancient glory still felt in modern Egypt
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Archaeologists have found evidence of the 138th pyramid in Cairo, but these monuments to Egypt's early ingenuity are also an ever-present symbol of faded glory.
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