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When members of three law-enforcement agencies made a surprise search of the Houston medical practice of Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray on July 22, it marked a dramatic turn in the inquiry into the pop star's death: the first official mention of a possible manslaughter investigation.
When Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak dared negotiate Jerusalem at Camp David in 2000, then Likud leader Ariel Sharon walked onto the city's Islamic holy sites to symbolically declare his party's determination to keep all of the city in Israeli hands. (Sharon's action touched off a riot...
It's hard to tell whether the Fed is in any actual danger from its congressional critics. The Administration's proposals for regulatory reform would, on balance, give more power to the Fed than it has now. And House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank remains a staunch Fed defender...
Father Figures Three other Hogwarts boys - one in the present, two from the past - have virtually the same burden: they've been chosen to play crucial roles in the great conflict. One shadowy figure is a student whose old, annotated schoolbook, marked "Property of the Half-Blood Prince," helps Harry...
Italy does not need to look for its glory days in its fascist past. It does not even need to look longingly at the Renaissance and the Roman Empire (though, unlike the fascist period, it would do well to take these moments as inspiration). Italy has always been a country...