Posted by Matt in July 6th, 2008 |
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South-America,
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Today the two leaders, often partners but sometimes rivals, offer starkly different paths toward development, and it is Brazil’s milder and more pragmatic approach that appears ascendant. Amid the decline of American influence in the region, the Brazilian president is discreetly outflanking Chávez at almost every turn in the struggle for leadership in South America.
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Posted by Matt in June 26th, 2008 |
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germans,
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Traute Grier was 16 years old when the Soviets cut off West Berlin from the rest of the world. Here, she recounts her desparate struggle for survival, her terror of the Russians and how friendships developed between the Americans and occupied Germans. more… [ Video ]
Photo Gallery: The Candy Bombers
Timeline: A Brief History of the [...]
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Posted by Matt in April 28th, 2008 |
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Asia,
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iraq,
Japan,
National Security Council,
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War In Iraq
THE US war in Iraq has strengthened its strategic position, especially in terms of key alliances, and the only way this could be reversed would be if it lost the will to continue the struggle and abandoned Iraq in defeat and disarray.
Surely the author of this sentence is on the ganja, you might say. Something [...]
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