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Havoc in East Timor
Despite the efforts of peacekeepers from Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Malaysia, violence continues to wreak havoc in East Timorone of Asia’s poorest countries.
July 4, 2006:Unfinished Business
Independence Day celebrations take place in other nations around the world, but for the citizens of the United States the Fourth of July has a distinctive dimension.
Sanctions for Evil
A tragic irony of the war in Iraq is that it is a Marine Corps unit that is suspected of the largest single atrocity so far reported there.
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The Nuclear Impasse With Iran
For most of the past several months, the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program has largely been a theatrical collision of highly antagonistic political attitudes with political leaders in both the Unite
The Honor of It All
It was just 40 years ago this spring that the documents of the Second Vatican Council first appeared in English translation.
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Jon Meacham, managing editor of Newsweek and author of the bestselling book Franklin and Winston, states in American Gospel
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John Updike has written a contemporary thriller, a first for him (after publishing 50 fiction and non-fiction books) and a pleasant surpr
Books
No, Everyman, and [if] thou be once there Thou mayst never more come here, Trust me verily.
Television
Over the Memorial Day weekend I visited a friend who lives with his large family and who owns, improbably, a horse--a retired police horse,
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