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The self-defeating passivity of President Barack Obama’s policies in the Middle East may have reached its apotheosis this month at a National Security Council meeting that he chaired.
On the table were options for responding to the bloody and crimina...
DATE: Oct 31, 2016
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After reading the October 27 editorial titled “What’s missing? Rear window, bravery, honour, leadership”, we can understand the Editor’s shock at the news that the football team’s attackers were from the ages of 13 to 16. But that’s about the typical...
DATE: Oct 31, 2016
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Khalid Wasi
Because Brexit is not risky enough, apparently, Britain’s Conservative government has decided to embark on another project fraught with potential for failure.
For many years, the country has been arguing furiously about a big expansion of Heathrow. H...
DATE: Oct 28, 2016
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Iraqi forces, with heavy American backing, are slowly pushing the Islamic State out of Mosul, the group’s capital in Iraq and the largest city it holds there. Islamic State fighters are fleeing as towns and villages near the city fall. Losing Mosul i...
DATE: Oct 28, 2016
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Britain may be on the verge of an unprecedented experiment in public accountability. The courts may soon be invited to consider the following question: should government officials face prosecution if the actions they took to support the financial sys...
DATE: Oct 27, 2016
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I have been thinking lately about Shirley Chisholm’s legacy and her words: “Freedom is an endless horizon, and there are many roads that lead to it.”
As Chisholm understood, we engage in imperfect systems sometimes, to make them more perfect. And our...
DATE: Oct 27, 2016
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The Republican Party’s sad journey to Trump via Sarah Palin and the Tea Party was more than a spectator sport for President Barack Obama.
For more than seven years, Obama endured indignities, slanders, obstruction and a seemingly bottomless appetite...
DATE: Oct 26, 2016
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Baseball, the great Roger Angell once wrote, is “a sneaky quick-change artist”, and this year has brought the biggest switch in decades. They are calling the 2016 World Series the battle of the Lovable Losers, and I couldn’t be happier. I may not be ...
DATE: Oct 26, 2016
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Stephen L. Carter
Europe today is a mess. The strongest countries face lacklustre economic growth, while the weakest, like Greece, are struggling to recover from depression-like downturns. Politically, things are even worse, as disillusionment with European and domest...
DATE: Oct 25, 2016
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Today is a happy and sad day in Bermuda. Happy in that God has been merciful to Bermuda one more time in protecting us from another major hurricane. But sad that, amid a week of a big cleanup, someone would pull out a gun on someone on Court Street a...
DATE: Oct 21, 2016
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