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This rescue was inspiring news for the folks back home and other captives and slaves in North African hands, but the event was almost eclipsed by another daring raid the following year. In April 1805, Captain William Eaton put together a mixed force of Arab rebels and mercenaries and American...
Like politicians everywhere, Papua New Guinean M.P.s are programmed to plot. Eighteen months after a national election, a new government loses its immunity from votes of no confidence - and disgruntled M.P.s on both sides of Parliament start conspiring to unseat it. Of 11 governments since Independence in 1975, only six...
With Harvard and Georgetown both attempting a final maneuver, Navy unleashed its engine room, making a small advance before the 1,500-meter point, then leaving the jockeying shells in its wake.
By letting reporters know the President had dressed down Rumsfeld, the White House joined in the internecine shoving it normally disdains. White House aides insist that the move was intended neither to placate critics who wanted Rumsfeld's head nor to fuel demands for the guillotine. The Bush team wanted...
And it's on the support of that socialist Left on which Sonia Gandhi and the Congress Party will have to depend to muster a governing coalition. But Mrs. Gandhi made clear on Friday that the economic liberalization program overseen by Vajpayee was, in fact, launched over a decade ago...