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H1 Washington Post Iraq Plan Strives To Bridge Divide In Middle Ground, Some See Best Hope As Others See Risks

Officials Expect No Big Changes, No Matter What Panel Advises

Weekly Standard A Perfect Failure The Iraq Study Group has reached a consensus.
by Robert Kagan & William Kristol

From Metternich to Jim Baker The high price of restoring the ancien régime. by Ralph Peters

Surge and Run? More troops is only part of the answer.
by Tom Donnelly

More Iraq recommendations from the Weekly Standard

WSJ Plethora of Plans About What's Next The Baker report is only the beginning of a Washington rethink about Iraq. Several other efforts to devise a new approach are under way, some perhaps equally important.

Chessboard Endgame Obsessed with Iraq, we've lost sight of the rest of the world.
By GARRY KASPAROV

UPI Analysis: Can Iraq be split?

CFR The Implications of ‘Civil War’ in Iraq

What ‘Civil War’ Means for Iraq

New York Times A Limited Time Offer to Iran By GEORGE PERKOVICH and PIERRE GOLDSCHMIDT International interlocutors must disabuse Iran that it can have its uranium cake and eat it, too.

The Economist America and the Middle East Blood, tears and still no victory

CFR The Shia Revival (Audio)

FT Editorial A lower dollar helps the global economy

Guardian Leader U.S. Dollar Everybody's problem

Independent The $2 question: Weak dollar is good for visitors to US, but outlook for world economy is bleak

Baker Report Puts Bush in a Corner - David Corn, The Nation

Baker's Worthless Iraq Advice - John Podhoretz, New York Post

Al Awsat Iraq's Civil War: A New Television Production : Amir Taheri

Al Hayat Can Bush Succeed in Facing the Iranian Role In Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon? Raghida Dergham

Time Hizballah's Rally Highlights the Government's Weakness

Tony Karon A New US Option in Iraq: Panic!

Laurza Rozen The Salvador Option, revisited 11:25 AM

The American Prospect "The Memo," The American Prospect online, December 1, 2006.

The Times Graham Stewart
Scottish independence is now an even more popular cause in England than it is in Scotland

New Republic Christianity's long history of violence A new book explores whether periods of Christian coercion are compatible with the belief that "God is love." by David Nirenberg

The Economist Lexington A national party no more? The Republicans are in danger of being confined to the South

Guardian How America dumped Bush, part 2 Sidney Blumenthal The failure of the Republican Southern Strategy in the 2006 elections heralds not only the rejection of Bush but also the end of the long Republican era.

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Withdraw to '67 borders' Decisive majority in UN General Assembly approves six pro-Palestinian resolutions, including calls for Israel to dismantle settlements, withdraw from territory captured in '67, including E. Jerusalem, Golan Heights

Gates: Pro-Israel or not?

Incoming US defense secretary labeled as anti-Israel. Top officials: Picture more complex

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ASAM Azerbaycan: Denge Politikasında Basın Özgürlüğü Kamil Ağacan

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Another Opposition Paper, Party Under Pressure for "Back Rent"

RFE/RL Nagorno-Karabakh Officials Assess Talks Mediators in the Karabakh conflict have warned that upcoming elections in Armenia and Azerbaijan could scupper chances of reaching a peace settlement.

H2 The Economist Charlemagne The Turkish train crash

Enkazdan ne kurtarılır?

Economist dergisi Türkiye AB gerginliğini yorumluyor

The Economist The pope in Turkey Tiptoeing through a spiritual minefield

Islam and Christianity Muslims and the pope

Guardian We are only two weeks from an existential explosion
Martin Kettle: If the European Union now spurns Turkey, it will deservedly stand accused of historic dishonesty and perfidy.

FT COMMENT: A partnership, if only in spirit “Conflicted” would be a good way to describe recent European attitudes towards Turkey. A battle has pitted pragmatists against idealists. The former camp has been led by the European Commission, writes Christopher Caldwell.

Pope’s Turkey visit an unexpected success

Washington Times Turkey holds firm on foreign policy (Andrew Borowiec)

Pope wins over Muslims with nod to Mecca, message

In pictures
Turks react to Pope Benedict's visit

OpenDemocracy Exile at home: being Turkish, thinking European | Daria Vaisman The reception of Orhan Pamuk's Nobel award in Turkey is charged with the political tensions inside the country and in its relationship with Europe, says Daria Vaisman

Guardian Putting Turkey to the test David Boaz A Turkish academic has been fired for expressing his views.

Praise and fears as Pope ends Turkish visit Pope Benedict flew out of Turkey having convinced many - but not all - of his desire for warm relations with Muslim world.
News blog: Turkey trip shows Holy See's great vision

The Australian Papal benediction for Turkey

Symposium: The Pope and Islam
FrontPage

Patriarch Bartholomew I on the Papal Visit

LA Times Pope ends visit of conciliation

EurasiaNet Papal Visit Focuses Attention on Minority Rights Issues in Turkey

The Times Protestant missionaries face nine years for insult to Islam

Turks warm to model of tolerance and finally learn to love the Pope

Slate Today's Papers Wikipedia antiwar.com technorati

Statoil is making a shift in interest from southern Iraq to Kurdistan

CHP'nin Güneydoğu Raporu'na göre aşiretler yeniden güçleniyor

Ednan Müfti ABD heyetini kabul etti

Terör ve Kürd devleti Korkusu

Tuğluk, umarım Ağar’ın kararlılığı sürer

´Kerkük’ü istememizin sebebi petrol değil’

Kürdistan Pêşmerge Kuvvetleri Düzenli Ordu Çatısı Altında Toplanıyor

Ağar’a, derin devlet misiniz ?

ABD Elçiliği, PKK kararını temyiz edeceğiz

Türklerin Irak Kürd sınırında 250 bin askeri bulunmaktadır

Talafer'de Bölücü Broşürler

Osmanlı Salnamelerinde Telafer ve Kerkük

Serttürkmen Anne Clywyd ile Türkmenleri ve Kerkük'...

Sinan Aygün'e PKK'dan tehdit

Kurdish official speaks on Iraq's progress

Barzani: Petrol adil paylaşılmalı

Kalkan'a Öcalan cezası: 7.5 yıl hapis

Hizbullah, STK olmaya çalışıyor

Şırnak’ta PKK’ya ait 123 kilo TNT ele geçti

ALİ BAYRAMOĞLU Derin çelişki...

[Yorum - M. Şükrü Hanioğlu] Kurumsal kültler, şahıs kültleri ve Türk toplumu (1)

[Yorum - Prof. Dr. E. Fuat Keyman] AKP, CHP, DYP, MHP: 2007 ve sonrası...

Arınç Benim eşim köle değil!

Enis Berberoğlu Sadece ’Açmam’ demiyor devamını dinlemek lazım

Metehan Demir Askeri Şûra'nın gizli kodları

YAŞ ihraçlarının perde arkası

Mavi Kitap, mektup, münazara...
Murat Belge

Mensur Akgün Güvenlik devletlerine doğru

Pamuk Ben Türk yazarıyım Türkçe konuşacağım

'Bu ödül Türkiye'ye, hepimize bir sevinç'

AİHM’den kritik Kıbrıs kararı

AIDS ve Türkiye

Türkiye'deki durumu Dr. Muhtar Çokar anlatıyor

Irak'taki iç savaşta Mossad parmağı var MUSİB EL NUAYMİ

H3 Bryza'Türkiye'de askeri darbe olmaz' t... Haberin Devamı>>>

Türkiye'de güçlü bir demokrasi var darbeyi tahayyül edemiyorum

Department of State Organization Chart (repeat)

Lale Sarıibrahimoğlu Amerikalı Komutan Schoomaker; "Türkiye'de darbe olur mu?"

General Ralston'a, ABD basınından ilginç suçlama

Yasemin Çongar INTERVIEW WITH MAJOR GENERAL MINETTI Major Genera...

Murat Çelik Bu geziye dikkat!
Başbakan bu akşam İran'a gidiyor.

Bir 'darbe' yazısı da benden M.Ali Kışlalı

Ali Bulaç Darbelerde ara elemanlar

Mehmet Kamış Üst düzey komutanın tarihî itirafı

Ağar’dan "Benelüks" sürprizi

Köşk adaylığına ilginç yorum

Sona doğru Gündüz Aktan

Semih İDİZ Avrupa Birliği Komisyonu'nun Türkiye için kurduğu tuzak

Maybe a middle way has been found to continue negotiations Cengiz Aktar

Cengiz Çandar Tüm yazıları Türkiye ile AB “uzatma dakikaları”nda...

'Büyükler'in tavrına tepki
Murat Yetkin Sertleşme nedenleri

İlter Türkmen Askıya alma ile yavaşlama arasında fark var mı?

Ege Cansen AB işimiz Papa’ya kaldı

Barçın Yinanç AB bardağın dolusunu Türkiye'ye boşunu kendine gösteriyor

Mehmet Ali Birand Türkiye, farklı olduğunu gösterdi …

Erdal Sağlam Finlandiya’nın elindeki oyuncak tren

Vanhanen: Türkiye'nin yeri Avrupa'dır

Guardian Avrupa kapısını Türkiye'ye kapatıyor mu?

FT AB kötü niyetli davranıyor

Tren yavaşlasa da son istasyon belli

Gül’den AB’ye sert mesajlar

Erdoğan: Emrivaki yapmaya çalışıyorlar . Haberin Devamı>>>

ERDAL ŞAFAK Günah çıkartmak

Hasan CEMAL Mücadeleye devam, ama rayda kalarak!

Ömer Lütfi Mete Ankara'da Finli hinli, cinli saatler

Büyükelçiler de bölündü

Güneri CIVAOĞLU Arızanın teşhisi

İsmail Küçükkaya
Riga'nın görünmeyenleri...

Şahin Alpay Türkiye'nin "yumuşak" gücü

Nazlan Ertan Pope or the Commission

Kalbimin bir kısmı İstanbul'da kaldı

Taha AKYOL 'İstanbul barışı'

Sami KOHEN Papa samimi mi?

Mustafa Akyol Papa geldi, ezberleri sarstı

Papa bile 'Ekümenik' dedikten sonra İsmet Berkan

Öktem ‘Papa neredeyse Müslüman olacaktı’

Papa'nın ziyareti ve sorunlar
Altan Öymen

Sadi SOMUNCUOĞLU
Lozan jurnali, “Ekümeniklik” ve “Altın goller”

FEHMİ KORU Hayırlısıyla…

Can Dündar 'Kin kapısı'

‘Papa’nın camideki duası utanmaz bir putperestlik’

Ertuğrul Özkök Bardakoğlu haç çıkarabilir mi

Mehmet Y Yılmaz Sultanahmet elden gitmedi!

İki kilisenin 900 yıllık barışma çabası AYŞE HÜR

Papa’nın Fener şifreleri

NAZLI ILICAK Konstantinopolis ve Stinpolis

Nuh Gönültaş Papa geldi bazı ezberlerimiz bozuldu!

Yusuf KANLI A pope passed through this land

İlnur Cevik His Holiness also won the hearts of Muslims

We have the pope on our side, now we have two left GILA Benmayor

Deniz Gökçe Enflasyon hedeflemesi ve serbest kur kötü mü?

Metin MÜNİR
Yutmak mı yutulmak mı? İşte soru bu

Mahir Kaynak Sorular

Bardak boşaldı mı? Taner Berksoy

TAHA KIVANÇ Dokunma yanarsın

Milli DNA Bankası kuruluyor suçluların tespiti kolaylaşıyor

Ağar: Kendimi ezdirmem

Zeyneb Hanım of Amasia/Amasya (d. 879 H. 1474 AD.)

H4 New York Times A Limited Time Offer to Iran By GEORGE PERKOVICH and PIERRE GOLDSCHMIDT International interlocutors must disabuse Iran that it can have its uranium cake and eat it, too.

Afghan District Makes Own Deal With the Taliban

Next Chairman for Intelligence Opposed War

Lofty Goals Are Scaled Down at Meetings on Mideast Democracy

Beirut Journal: After War, Lebanon Turns to Art, Asking: Who Are We?

In Beirut, High Spirits and Demand for Change

Radiation Detected in Man Who Met With Ex-Spy

Reporter’s Notebook: Facts and Body Language Bring Clues and Questions at Bush-Maliki Meeting

Bush to Meet With Head of Iraq Shiite Party

Israeli Overflights Continue, U.N. Says

H5 Washington Post Iraq Plan Strives To Bridge Divide In Middle Ground, Some See Best Hope As Others See Risks

Officials Expect No Big Changes, No Matter What Panel Advises

Crisis Intensifies in Lebanon As Hezbollah Takes to Streets

Russia's Hidden Power Struggle By Masha Lipman,

Afghanistan Opium Crop Sets Record

U.S.-Backed Efforts At Eradication Fail

New Nuclear Weapons Program To Continue

Editorial Wasted Energy

What kind of light bulbs do you use?

U.S., Iraq Stage Raids in Capital: Military Reports 28 Arrested in Operation Targeting Insurgents

William Arkin The Gates Agenda

Joint Chiefs See Victory or Are Playing a Game?

H6 Guardian Leader U.S. Dollar Everybody's problem First it was blamed on Thanksgiving: the sell-off in the US dollar was the result of turkeys being digested by Wall Street. But the dollar's decline has continued long after that holiday ended and now threatens to slide all the way to Christmas.

Forever friends Lawrence Freedman Britain's special relationship with the US is still going strong.

How America dumped Bush, part 2 Sidney Blumenthal The failure of the Republican Southern Strategy in the 2006 elections heralds not only the rejection of Bush but also the end of the long Republican era.

Litvinenko contact tests positive
'Potentially fatal' level of polonium found in Italian terrorism expert who met former spy in sushi bar.
Scaramella told agent of 'murder plot'
Poison's effect on human tissue
Spy expert at centre of storm

Protest brings Beirut to standstill
Corruption and lack of inclusion prompt rally as Muslims and Christians demand new government.

Charisma and petro-dollars: show will go on for Chávez
Opponents loathe him, but leftwing leader is 20 points ahead of his main rival.

H7 The Economist The world economy Rebalancing act

A further drop in the dollar is likely as the American economy slows: leader

America and Iraq Waiting for Baker

Iran and America What hope of a grand bargain?

NRO THE EDITORS: The U.S. needs to fight more in Iraq, not give up. That means sending more troops to Baghdad. “One for the Wastebaskets”

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Let me at least outline the divide. “War Stories”

CLIFFORD D. MAY: If we open negotiations with Iran, what would we say? “Give Them Something to Talk About”

Neo-conservatism at the Vatican? Henry Kissinger to become. Political Adviser to Pope Benedict XVI Center for Research on Globalization

Yale Global Globalization Anxiety

Peace in Waziristan SWP
A 7-page German commentary on the counterterrorism implications of the recent cease-fire in Northern Waziristan

Tom Barnett Rising Asia: the good, the bad, and the potentially ugly

H8 Al Awsat Iraq's Civil War: A New Television Production : Amir Taheri

CFR The Shia Revival (Audio)

Al Hayat Can Bush Succeed in Facing the Iranian Role In Iraq, Palestine, and Lebanon? Raghida Dergham

Save Lebanon Randa Takieddin

Powell says US should talk to Iran

Time Hizballah's Rally Highlights the Government's Weakness

BBC Protesters set up camp in Beirut Pro-Syrian protesters pitch tents in Beirut and vow to remain until Lebanon's government resigns.

Political ferment in Lebanon

Lebanese crisis explained

Bush and top Iraqi Shia to meet

A new day for US and Iran
Minnesota Daily

America Must Decide between Shiites and Sunnis

“A Primer in Lebanese Politics,” by Uri Avnery

Research: A US-Middle East Trade Agreement: A Circle of Opportunity?

H9 Ha’aretz - Print Edition North and south By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff

Daily Alert.org

EJC Israeli Press Review

New UN resolutions back Palestinian right to a state

Yedioth Ahronoth 'Withdraw to '67 borders' Decisive majority in UN General Assembly approves six pro-Palestinian resolutions, including calls for Israel to dismantle settlements, withdraw from territory captured in '67, including E. Jerusalem, Golan Heights

Gates: Pro-Israel or not?

Incoming US defense secretary labeled as anti-Israel. Top officials: Picture more complex

Jerusalem Post A struggle for normalcy in Lebanon By JACEY HERMAN
Lebanese were once divided along religious lines. They are now split along political affiliations.

Security and Defense: A farewell to arms? [ YAAKOV KATZ

H10 Christian Science Monitor US secretly assigns travelers terror ratings The government calls the Homeland Security program 'critical.' Privacy advocates call it highly 'invasive.'

Baker Report Puts Bush in a Corner - David Corn, The Nation

Baker's Worthless Iraq Advice - John Podhoretz, New York Post

Iraq Study Group Won't Rock Boat - Helen Thomas, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

The War of All Against All - Patrick Buchanan, Creators

William Lind Military Matters: More troops won't help

War makes bad politics

By James Jay Carafano Politics, war strategy and elections often make for bad strategy and bad politics.

Blood and oil By Victor Davis Hanson It's easy to think all of the violent instability across the globe is unconnected. But, in fact, in one way or another, oil and its huge profits are at the bottom of a lot of it.

Saudis' worst nightmare

By Claude Salhani A precipitous withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq will result in an immediate and massive Saudi Arabian military intervention to stop Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias from "butchering Iraqi Sunnis."

U.S. Lowers Sights On Pyongyang By: Donald Kirk | Asia Times
As Americans and North Koreans spar over resuming formal talks, Washington has softened its stance, no longer demanding total nuclear disarmament. Instead, there is talk of a "freeze" of North Korea's program.

H11 IHT

Heritage Foundation Europe, America, and the Continental Drift

The Economist Poland's awkward government Into the fray

The European Union's new members Through the looking glass

Europe's emissions-trading scheme Compressed

BBC Research challenge
Can the EU's science funding plan deliver on its promise?

Intermarriage, Language and Economic Assimilation Process: A Case Study of France

H12 RFE/RL Nagorno-Karabakh Officials Assess Talks Mediators in the Karabakh conflict have warned that upcoming elections in Armenia and Azerbaijan could scupper chances of reaching a peace settlement.

'Forgotten Victims' Of Hussein Era Two decades after the attacks, Iranians lucky enough to have survived must suffer the long-term effects of chemical agents

Caucasus: Azerbaijani, Armenian, Karabakh Officials Assess Talks

The Economist Russia's foreign relations Friends in need

Russia and China When dragons dance with bears

ASAM Azerbaycan: Denge Politikasında Basın Özgürlüğü Kamil Ağacan

EurasiaNet Azerbaijan: Another Opposition Paper, Party Under Pressure for "Back Rent"

EDM GAIDAR’S APPARENT POISONING FUELS CONSPIRACY THEORIES

- LUGAR URGES ACTIVE ROLE FOR NATO IN ENERGY SECURITY POLICY

- MOSCOW OFFERS ANKARA EXPANDED COOPERATION IN ENERGY SPHERE

Russia starts supplies of Su-30 fighters to Venezuela RIA Novosti,

BBC Spy-link pair test positive for polonium

An Italian contact and a relative of dead ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko test positive for polonium-210.

Timeline: Former spy case

Q & A: The investigation

Russian TV tracks probe

Georgia says it will get most of its 2007 gas needs from Shahdeniz

H13 The Times Graham Stewart
Scottish independence is now an even more popular cause in England than it is in Scotland

800,000 in Hezbollah rally

Iraq elite back in exile again

WSJ Plethora of Plans About What's Next The Baker report is only the beginning of a Washington rethink about Iraq. Several other efforts to devise a new approach are under way, some perhaps equally important.

Chessboard Endgame Obsessed with Iraq, we've lost sight of the rest of the world.
By GARRY KASPAROV

Reyes to Head House Intelligence Panel Pelosi tapped Texas Rep. Reyes to head the House Intelligence Committee, ending weeks of speculation. Negroponte praised the selection, but some at the CIA are skeptical.

Capital Flight U.S. financial markets aren't what they used to be.

Grace Under Pressure
People often speak of an absence of civility in Washington, but Peggy Noonan argues that what's needed is grace. By PEGGY NOONAN

Morgan Stanley Unprepared in Beijing

The World Economy in the New Millennium: A New Golden Age?

H14 Financial Times Hard landing fears hit dollar The dollar fell further on the currency markets as weak US economic data heightened investor fears that the US economy could be heading for a hard landing.

Editorial A lower dollar helps the global economy The world economy looks like a healthy man who has been told to cut down on his beloved coffee: the ailment is well known, but the cure is unpalatable.

Iraq takes over army division from US Iraq’s government took command over another army division in the north, a US general announced, in an apparent demonstration of the US’s commitment to accelerate the handover of military control to Nouri al-Maliki, prime minister

Spotlight: Robert Gates – Iraq ‘realist’ at the gates

Lunch with the FT: Ted Sorenson The man behind Kennedy was responsible for penning memorable lines in epochal speeches. Graham Bowley talks to him about JFK, Bush and crises old and new

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - BOOK REVIEWS: Decisions, decisions Entscheidungen: Mein Leben in der Politik by Gerhard Schroder

US urges Opec not to cut output further

MIDDLE EAST: Hizbollah flexes its muscles

Beirut protestors call on PM to resign

Lebanese fear return to civil war

WORLD NEWS: Italian prime minister to sue over allegations of KGB links

MIDDLE EAST: Pavement politics grips Tehran

FT WEEKEND MAGAZINE - BOOK REVIEWS: Continental shift

H15 Los Angeles Times Editorial Bush set to meet Iraqi Shiite leader with ties to Iran

Maliki criticized as violence flares

Defense nominee's business ties raise concerns

FT Editorial Transport troubles No time feels as entirely wasted as time spent in a traffic jam. But with congestion rising across the world, more of us will spend more of our lives trapped in a...

COMMENT: Moderates must work harder to hold Chavismo at bay

Apart, perhaps, from Chile, high levels of social exclusion are still the defining characteristic of Latin American societies. Much more is needed to address their plight.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Petro-populism: a third term beckons for Venezuela's firebrand presidentUS policymakers may have markedly toned down their rhetoric in dealings with Hugo Chávez of late, reflecting a shift towards pragmatic accommodation, but there has been no let-up in the Venezuelan leader’s anti-imperialist rhetoric.

COMMENT AND ANALYSIS: Shoppers can think green, not greenback As the dollar has fallen against world currencies, those lucky enough to be paid in euros or sterling are exhorted to fly to America and save money. Some calm needs to be brought to this frenzy.

H16 The Economist Lexington A national party no more? The Republicans are in danger of being confined to the South

Washington Post New Values for Western States Midterm elections may signal the end of resistance to conservation measures, GOP dominance.

Conservatives have forgotten, if they ever knew it, that the U.S. was built squarely on the rights of individuals to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness... more»

NYT Politician, Police Thyself

By JOSH CHAFETZ At a time when the public has routinely perceived Congress as corrupt, the House and Senate clearly are doing almost nothing to dispel that perception.

Will 2008 Be Even Worse for Republicans? - Tom Curry, MSNBC

realclearpolitics – ABC’s The Note - Early Bird GovExec - Blogometer

The Daily Troika: Obama's Secret Meet. / Popma Endorses McCain (Hotline On Call)

BBC Climate change
Can US Democrats make Congress go green?

H17 Daily Telegraph Leader Bottom dollar The tumbling dollar is good news for Britain, since it means in effect that foreign governments are loaning us money at attractive rates. It is also the final refutation of those who argued that, outside the euro, the pound would be left bobbing about like a cork in the wake of an ocean liner.

H18 Independent The $2 question: Weak dollar is good for visitors to US, but outlook for world economy is bleak Anyone hoping to cash in on a $2 pound should enjoy it while it lasts, because a tumbling dollar could start an economic whirlwind.

• Robert Fisk: My reservations about the French

BUSINESS

H19 Senior Pentagon official Stephen Cambone to resign

DoD Eyes Ex-CIA Strategist For Key Post

"Reducing DoD Fossil-Fuel Dependence," JASON report JSR-06-135, September 2006 (105 pages, 4.5 MB PDF).

Killing Habeas Corpus Permalink

Navy Mind Control Permalink |

Air Force Policy Document. See "Information Operations" (pdf), AFPD 10-7, 6 September 2006 (revised 8 Oct 06).

· H20 Slate

Is James Bond Responsible for the Iraq War?:

How the Middle East really got shaken and stirred.

Richard Cohen

Phoenix Airport to Test Full-Body X-Ray Screening...

Gates' billions to be gone within 50 years of his death

The Economics and Politics of Climate Change

Mapping Prisoner Reentry: An Action Research Guidebook
Urban Institute
This 146-page guidebook illustrates how to understand and address prisoner reentry at the local level through mapping and data analysis

H21 FT Editorial European football It is not often that a reasonable case can be made against free markets and in favour of wage controls and restrictions in international labour movements. But football...

People's web takes on the big brandsThe web will destroy McDonalds, Starbucks and all the big chains. Discuss. It won’t, but it might weaken their grip. If you click around, you will find review sites for pretty much anything, writes David Bowen

No one school of economics can explain and predict every aspect of human economic behavior. Not even in a place like Chicago... more»

That there is a persistent gap in black/white IQ scores is not in dispute. How to understand the difference, and narrow it, is another question... more»

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