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It is an embarrassing open secret that, contrary to his hallowed position in the secular sainthood of freedom, Abraham Lincoln was never a particularly passionate abolitionist. But he freed the slaves, and regardless of his real reasons for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, aren’t we glad he did...
No prizes for guessing why the markets are jumpy. The winner of the first round, with 46.4% of the vote, was Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva - universally known as Lula - the candidate of the Workers' Party, which has in the past flirted with repudiating Brazil's massive external debt. Lula...
Still, Lula's election, should it happen, would be no small matter. Brazil has the largest economy in Latin America; some of the trends that seem likely to propel Lula to power are visible elsewhere on the continent as well. Peter Hakim, president of the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington...
Tomas Jirsa, a confident, gum-chewing 19-year-old from Prague, is standing on Kildare Street in Dublin, handing out leaflets and wearing a bright red vest that proclaims: I'm from the Czech Republic and against nice - ask me why. Nice is shorthand for the European Union enlargement treaty...
This time, the theorists say they weren't even looking for the Lost Continent. They were bounty hunting for sunken galleons and such (they say they've found one of those, too, and it's going to make them rich). Then when they peered at this sonar photography being sent...