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RICK SANTORUM TYPES AND THE WORLD
Major articles in this week’s ECONOMIST. The question of the day is this: How many of the Republican candidates for President know more about these matters than does a high school senior taking a civics course? Highlights from The Economist online’s Politics this week » Lexington: The union’s state is dire » The Republican nomination: [...]
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117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First In prison you see ...
Major articles in this week's ECONOMIST. The question of the day is this: How many of the Republican ...
Our pusillanimous president is not even aware of the fact that he can save the Guantanamo protesters if he chose ...
Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own "Inconvenient Truth" Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average Al Gore’s ...
Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011 EDITORIAL 70 years since Pearl Harbor attack Seventy years have passed since Dec. 8, 1941 (Japan time), when more ...
DETENTION IN SOUTH AFRICA
117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law by Ruth First In prison you see only the moves of the enemy. Prison is the hardest place to fight a battle.’ 117 Days is Ruth First’s personal account of her detention under the iniquitous ’90-day’ law of 1963. There [...]
A TRIP AROUND THE WORLD
1. Simon Wheatcroft is not only blind but he is dumb, too. He is starting out today on a 100 mile two day run. Never mind where. 2. Japan set a new heat record for June. 103.8. But was much hotter in Hiroshima days. 3. Boris Becker’s oversized Mallorca estate has been placed in embargo [...]
