Nikki Stone: Even Country Leaders Have to Learn to Take a Risk: Prince Albert’s Most Moving Experience
Things didn't go exactly as I planned in the 1994 Olympics. But I can say that I truly cherish the memories and the friendships...
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Jesse Kornbluth: At Last, A Book That Says: ‘We Need To Care More About Water Than Oil’
A few years ago, when we were deep in the fiction of "choosing a school" for our little monster, the director of admissions of the...
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Jennifer Utz: Gays in Iraq
August 31st will mark the end of all combat operations in Iraq. Presumably, this would mean that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" was a success, even though...
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Hamid Karzai: U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Private Contractors Engaging In Terrorist, Mafia-Like Activity
Afghanistan's embattled president Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that U.S. taxpayers were indirectly funding "mafia-like groups" and terrorist activities with the American government's support of private contractors inside his country. In a r...
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Fresh Flooding In Pakistan Forces Hundreds Of Thousands To Flee
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The floods tearing through Pakistan's breadbasket have further weakened this already unstable country, inflicting more economic pain on its people and threatening a key pillar of the U.S.-led war against Islamist milit...
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Maria Rodale: Girls and Golf: My Ultimate Sports Dilemma
I have mixed feelings about golf, and mostly mixed negative feelings at that. My father never played it, but as a young workingwoman, I really...
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Will Bunch: It’s Not About the Mosque! It’s America’s War on ‘the Other’
The political firestorm with its epicenter in lower Manhattan really has nothing to do with 9/11 and everything to do with the fear that America is becoming a non-white-dominated country.
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Top 5 White Collar Villains: Mark Hurd Lies, Cheats and Scores $30 Million Severance
What a great country this is, where you can rise to lead a huge multinational, become embroiled in accusations of sexual harassment and fraud, yet still walk away with $30 million. You can bet fo...
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AZ sheriff asks for donations for semi-auto weapons for his deputies
Pinal County AZ Sheriff Paul Babeu has consistently said his deputies are outgunned by drug cartels. Now he’s asking for private citizens to donate $200,000 to arm 200 deputies with semi-autos. He says asking the feds or country supervisors for the money would take too long. Is he grandstanding? No. One of his deputies was [...]
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With A-Rod’s 600th Out Of The Way, Who’s Next On The Home Run Milestone List?
Against the Blue Jays on Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez reached a career home run milestone that rattled not the country; nay, the world. What his dinger did, though, was put him 100 homers away from his next numerical landmark, so while we wait another t...
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