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Sarah Baxter's article Wake up, the West is losing in The Sunday Times caught my attention during my British stopover. It is a profile ...

Here's a review by British novelist David Lodge of What Good Are The Arts? by John Carey, in the Sunday Times . I couldn't buy the b...

The New York Times says he's been sentenced to 10 years, minus 19 months for time already served, ending in 2012. It would certainly...

France's vote against the European constitution may have resulted from electoral tactics on the part of the "Oui" campaign, wh...

Couldn't resist linking to this item at AnnCoulter.com : As the extra little cherry on top, all Moyers' nut conspiracy theories wer...

Before we left on vacation some two weeks ago, I was thinking about writing a book about our walking holiday. Then, at a farmhouse in North ...

In Copenhagen for a conference, discovered that Christiana's famous 'Pusher Street'--where drugs were openly traded--was closed ...

Uzbekistan explodes. Luckily, while we've been off on a walking holiday in Wales, Nathan Hamm's excellent Central Asia website Regis...

Jackie Trescott's excellent Washington Post story on the docents recent victory over Earl "Rusty" Powell's inept administr...

Article in the Washington Post today about Democratic Congressmen calling for an investigation of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, w...

Nabi Abdullaev, one of the best writers, has a good account of Putin's Parade in Moscow : As an orchestra struck up a triumphant march, ...

From South Africa's News24.com , comes this account of an attack on Berlin's newest public art project by Paul Spiegel, head of the ...

Some background for President Bush's visit to Tblisi from a recent report by Human Rights Watch (Tbilisi, April 13, 2005)--Since the ...

Writing in The Huffington Post , JFK's favorite historian says Yalta was a realistic deal based on the military balance-of-power on the ...

I found the item about the US Army band via a google link to Waypath - Blog Discovery Engine . It's interesting...

This interesting item on the 60th Anniversary of V-E Day celebrations in Moscow, from The Greatest Jeneration : When someone called to strik...

In Middle East Quarterly - Spring 2005 : "Islamic civilization is not a historical anomaly in its sanction of decapitation.[36] The Ro...

In his address, Vladimir Putin made a direct connection between WWII and today's Global War on Terror: Six decades later, this memory ...

Michael Booth writes : Pull the $390 million federal plug on the PBS parent and the local stations, -- and force some change. If the old sho...