MAY 24, 2010 Iran: From Hostage Crisis to the Bomb? By WARREN KOZAK We measure their rhetoric, we monitor their actions both within their borders and abroad, and we wonder: “Once they get it, would they use it?” But perhaps we are asking the wrong question when it comes to Iran’s race to get the […]
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MAY 29, 2010 California’s GOP Senate Primary Comes Down to the Wire By ALLYSIA FINLEY Costa Mesa, Calif. ‘I’ve always voted against taxes. This is important, ladies and gentlemen, because our country is on a precipice. Do you want people to follow through on their promises?” state Assemblyman Chuck DeVore bellows to a rapt crowd
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MAY 29, 2010 The Man Who Saved Colombia Álvaro Uribe By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Bogotá Excerpt from the article re legalizing drugs: Does that tell us something about the inefficacy of the war on drugs as a way to reduce demand? He sees where I am going with this line of argument against the current
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MAY 29, 2010 Primary Fight Alters Dynamic in Race vs. Reid By ALEXANDRA BERZON Republican Sue Lowden was expected to pose a stiff challenge to Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada this fall, in one of the nation’s most closely watched Senate races. But Mr. Reid, facing a tide of unpopularity in his home state,
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MAY 29, 2010 Frenchman Builds a Dream Château On a Grand Estate in the Ozarks Castle Made With Medieval Techniques; Oh, for a Modern Power Tool! By STEPHANIE SIMON LEAD HILL, Ark.—Boone County Judge Mike Moore has seen plenty of dreamers promise the world to this humble corner of the Ozarks. Developers have talked of
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ENVIRONMENT & SCIENCE MAY 29, 2010 Mining for Cold, Hard Facts Scientists Probe Antarctic Ice to Settle Climate Debates By ROBERT LEE HOTZ WEST ANTARCTICA—At a camp here on Earth’s remotest continent, American researchers have constructed a towering drill that, like a biopsy needle, periodically plunges thousands of feet into the ice to extract an
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MAY 28, 2010 The Fed and the May 6 ‘Flash Crash’ By MARK SPITZNAGEL Regulators have been busy searching for the cause of the May 6 “flash crash” when the market dropped by 9.3% and then recovered within minutes. I think it’s a good bet no cause will be found; there is still no consensus
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MAY 27, 2010 New York Is Almost Out of Cash By BETSY MCCAUGHEY Guess how long it is before the state of New York runs out of cash? Less than a week, according to the state’s comptroller. On June 1, New York is due to send $3.8 billion in aid to local school districts, including
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MAY 19, 2010 Obama and the ‘Special Relationship’ By WILLIAM INBODEN AND LISA ARONSSON London President Obama reaffirmed the importance of the “special relationship” in his warm congratulatory phone call to British Prime Minister David Cameron, and new Foreign Minister William Hague visited Washington only 48 hours after taking his post. But friendly relations between
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MAY 21, 2010 Republicans And Obama’s New Deal By PETER J. WALLISON In the rapturous days after Barack Obama’s victory and the Democratic congressional sweep that accompanied it, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank declared that the new Congress would enact a “new New Deal.” Few people really thought at the time that he
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