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It sounds like a good idea - none of us likes to think of our employers finding out about, say, that sensitive little flare-up back in '87 - but some doctors groups are up in arms over the legislation, saying it keeps them from freely communicating with their patients, and from...
There may be another motivation for Jiang to keep quiet. The Chinese President, who is due to retire later this year, seems to be counting on Beijing's vastly improved international ties as a key part of his personal legacy. An 11th-hour flare-up with Washington wouldn't help...
The Israeli-Palestinian flare-up was not the only challenge facing Washington's coalition against terrorism this week. A suicide attack by suspected Islamic terrorists on India's parliament saw seven Indians killed, and pressure is mounting on India to retaliate against Pakistan, from whose territory the gunmen are alleged...
When National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice announced that the President would be making a series of speeches this week, it looked like the stagecraft that signals a big U-turn. Advisers had been whispering about making a "recalibration," in which the President would tighten up the message about progress in...
Al-Jazeera's broad mix of views doesn't much bother Washington, except when U.S. interests are perceived to be at immediate risk. In 1998, during a flare-up in tension between Iraq and the U.S., the Pentagon balked at story lines critical of American foreign policy. Washington's complaints...