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...gathered here armed with nothing but roses ... and you claimed your liberty." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, saluting Georgia's 2004 "rose revolution," during the first visit by an American President to the former Soviet republic...
Many Americans have long suspected that the only way for Bush to dupe us into invading Iraq was to cook the intelligence. But this never rose above the level of opinion—until just a few short weeks ago. On May 1, The London Times published the complete minutes of a meeting Tony Blair held with his cabinet in July of 2002. This extraordinarily damning glimpse into the pro-war clan’s decision-making process created quite a stir in England, where many voters were upset by what the document revealed about their government?...
Some leaders sneak out of their country during an uprising; others become paralyzed by mass demonstrations. But when Uzbek oppositionists rose up in the eastern city of Andijan last week, Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov sent in the armor. Communications with Andijan were cut; foreign TV news broadcasts to Uzbekistan, including from Russia, were replaced with light entertainment. The insurrection started when a group of armed men raided a local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist...
...title of her memoir aptly describes the gulf Gray perceived between her and her parents. Her mother, the vain and extravagant hat designer Tatiana, and her stepfather Alexander Liberman, who rose to become the editorial director of Condé Nast, were dedicated to each other and to their mutual ascent in post--World War II New York City society, lavishing attention on friends like Marlene Dietrich and Irving Penn but often neglecting the young woman sharing their home. The book is a brisk, bittersweet and ultimately forgiving look at two larger-than-life figures and the shadows they cast...
...year study of 41,000 men published in Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers found that the risk that a man would develop Type 2 diabetes fell as his dairy intake rose. But don't drink just any milk; the benefit was linked to low- and nonfat dairy foods only...