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But we are proud to say that Frank Smyth contributed 208 entries already.
Then-Vice President Al Gore was the first high-level U.S. official ever to publicly promise to promote “democracy in Iraq.” Nothing would be more revolutionary for a place that had been long dominated by a small minority.
One trait that France and the United States have in common is that each nation acts like it has moral authority to lead the world.
Seeming more distant now than it did then, it was the form basketball star Bill Bradley when he ran for president who said that the U.S. must stop going it alone so in the world and learn to work more cooperatively.
No country so small has ever moved so much cocaine north. Earlier in this decade, about 50 to 75 metric tons of cocaine passed through Guatemala each year, according to the State Department.
Carlos Castano is not a name that comes up much in the debate over whether to escalate U.S. drug-war aid to Colombia. But policy-makers and politicians alike in America should be mindful of the alliances that he and other rightist paramilitaries…
Never have so many different forces been deployed in the same place. Hungarian soldiers guard “Film City,” the former movie studio that is now a hilltop command post for NATO-led international forces in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina.
Many developing nations have borders that were first established by colonial powers. But few embrace their colonial heritage as closely as does Eritrea, a tiny nation of 3.6 million people that amicably seceded from larger Ethiopia in 1993.
