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Afghans 'not ready' as US starts pull-out |
British soldiers are on full alert as a bloody Taliban backlash is predicted, Jonathan Owen reports. Nato powers meet in Chicago to review policy Estimates using Nato data suggest it will take more than four years before Afghan National Security Forces will be able to fight unaided. |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - Don't Blame Me |
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shamelessly told a crowd of mourners at tragic wife Mary Richardson Kennedy’s funeral yesterday that her suicide was not his fault.
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Is China Targeting The Dalai Lama? |
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Chinese agencies are secretly collecting samples of the Dalai Lama’s blood, urine and hair and are stepping up efforts to harm him, the Tibetan government in exile said on Sunday. |
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Is Elizabeth Warren Native American or Not? |
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Either way, there's little evidence she benefitted professionally. |
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WSJ: What China Can Teach Facebook |
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As Facebook launches its IPO, it's worth taking a moment to consider what the Chinese market can teach the global social-networking leader. |
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On the trail of Steve Jobs |
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On the trail of Steve Jobs He was the ultimate tastemaker, but Steve Jobs lived in surprising suburban ordinariness. The second most remarkable thing about Steve, though, was that for someone who changed the world so fundamentally – it's because of him that we all have computers – he seemed to have been brought up, worked and died within a small radius of his childhood home near Palo Alto, California. Somehow I always imagined Steve – barefoot Buddhist, design guru, tastemaker – not as a hometown boy, but someone more metropolitan or bohemian, or who would seek out a remote "spiritual" place to live. |
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Investors seeking a British Facebook |
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Investors seeking a British Facebook 
London has become the scene of a big-money race to find an internet firm with potential to be as profitable as the US social networking site |
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Mark Zuckerberg's status: married |
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Surprise update as Facebook founder weds university sweetheart Priscilla Chan after social network's share market listing The couple married at his Palo Alto, Calif. home in front of fewer than 100 stunned guests who thought they would be attending a party to celebrate Ms. Chan's graduation from medical school. |
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Four solutions that might end partisan gridlock |
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Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein / WashPost Four solutions that might make a difference. "Political dysfunction. Partisanship at record levels. Attack politics run amok. And public approval of Congress scraping the single digits (Sen. John McCain is fond of saying it’s down to blood relatives and paid staff)." |
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"The Golden Age of Silicon Valley Is Over" |
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Is the era of real innovation over? |
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Should you do business in a hoodie? |
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg can afford to dress down, even when he's courting Wall Street suits. But what are the rules for the rest of us? |
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Why does the world's greatest democracy offer just two choices? |
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Voters are bored of both Republicans and Democrats, but a Pop Idol-style contest to find an alternative candidate has also failed to excite "The nature of power is to hang on to it all costs. And that's what Republican and Democrat parties have done. The maze of rules and cost of getting on to the ballot in 50 different states is daunting to any potential third-party candidate for president - by design. And that is why, on the very rare occasion that someone has had the fortitude to take on the entrenched powers, they've usually had very deep pockets, like the billionaire Ross Perot, who was the last third-party candidate." |
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Capitalism at a crossroads |
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World leaders gather as eurozone debt fears wipe billions off markets Rarely have the world's most powerful people looked so impotent. |
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Chinese Communist Party Elite Send Kids to US Colleges |
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Critical of U.S. values, China’s elite still send their children to top U.S. colleges Andrew Higgins and Maureen Fan / WashPost
Costs fuel perceptions of Communist Party corruption. In some ways, the rush to U.S. campuses by the party’s “red nobility” simply reflects China’s national infatuation with American education. China has more students at U.S. colleges than in any other foreign country. They numbered 157,558 in the 2010-11 academic year, according to data compiled by the Institute of International Education — up nearly fourfold in 15 years. |
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How to Choose a Running Mate |
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Mitt Romney faces a range of considerations as he makes his most important decision as the likely Republican nominee: Selecting someone to join him on the ticket. |
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Killer Robots - Science fiction? |
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A drone may never have a sense of morality—but it's possible one could perform better than a human in sparing the innocent. |
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"Mitt Romney fails to see America" |
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Colbert I. King / WashPost Mitt Romney is focused on America’s largest, and slowest-growing, racial group: his own. |
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How London bankers learned to gamble. |
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Risk and the City How London bankers learned to gamble. |
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Will immigration decide the Presidential election? |
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Will immigration decide the Presidential election? |
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Why Barack Obama Needs to Keep Joe Biden |
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He's the most effective vice-president in history. |
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WSJ: What the Chinese Want |
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Consumers in China are increasingly modern in their tastes, but they are not becoming 'Western.' How the selling of coffee, cars and pizza sheds light on a nation racing toward superpower status. |
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Eduardo Saverin: Conservative Hero |
Saverin has every right to move. The New York Post editorial board flew to Saverin's aid, saying Saverin's decision is "rational" and "is his absolute right." Calling the Schumer bill a "shakedown," the Post writes: "Innovators don’t have to stick around just to be shaken down." |
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Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship? |
Should You Renounce Your U.S. Citizenship? A Facebook billionaire has sparked interest in 'expatriating' to skirt big tax bills. Here's what you need to know. |
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How White Will the Electorate Be? |
The economic dislocations of the Great Recession have undone much of the organizing work that Democrats performed in 2008. Not long ago I spoke with a union leader who told me that a huge share of her members were no longer registered at their previous address. The bulk of the union’s political work was simply finding them. Many had moved or were living in somebody else’s home. |
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