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...Guinea-Bissau Assassination Tit for Tat João Bernardo Vieira, the longtime President of this volatile West African nation, was assassinated by army troops on March 2 in apparent retaliation for the killing of a general hours before. The speaker of parliament, Raimundo Pereira, was sworn in as the state's interim President and is required to call elections within 60 days. Since winning independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has been racked by poverty and upheaval, becoming in recent years a key transit point for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe...
...Brussels Bailout Denied The European Union dismissed a Hungarian-led request from nine hard-hit East European countries for a $240 billion economic bailout, saying that blanket spending would be ill-advised owing to each nation's unique financial outlook. Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany insisted that without funds, a 'new Iron Curtain' would divide Europe...
Gibbs' Sun King moment came when he construed Limbaugh's opposition as "wishing and hoping for economic failure in this country"--not just anti-Obama but anti-American. In a time of crisis, the line between President and nation can be thin. And Limbaugh's defense--"What is so strange about being honest?"--sat awkwardly alongside his apoplectic reaction to Democratic criticisms of George W. Bush...
SNOOP DOGG joins the Nation of Islam. LINDSAY LOHAN says she's converting to Judaism. Call it a draw...
...conquer your uncommonness, it is granted you as a gift.†Jonas Wergeland, born into an underprivileged family, had only one dream: conquest. He had an indescribable and all-consuming need to prove that he was someone special and that he could seduce the hearts of a nation. He even managed to win the hearts of the people with a mega-popular television show. Yet his weakness for power and narcissistic self-obsession twisted his personage beyond any other explanation but one: a demon.“The Conqueror,†Jan Kjaerstad’s second...