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Bill Clinton To Speak To Democratic Senators About Health Bill

AP | DAVID ESPO | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to pass health care legislation by year's end, pointedly telling sk...

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Hillary Clinton Spotted Reading The Lost Symbol (PHOTO)

Posted 11.05.2009 | Books

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On a recent trip to Egypt for talks with the Egyptian President, Foreign Minister, and Intelligence Chief, Hillary Clinton was spotted, as seen on Lau...

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One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

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Hillary Clinton: US Wants Israel To Stop Building West Bank Settlements 'Forever'

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.04.2009 | World

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CAIRO — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesda...

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Palestinian Officials Criticize US Over Israeli Settlements

Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials on Sunday criticized the United States for what one called "back-pedaling" on demands that Israel stop settlement c...

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Karzai Effectively Handed 2nd Term After Abdullah Drops From Afghan Election

AP | HEIDI VOGT and ROBERT H. REID | Posted 11.02.2009 | World

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KABUL — President Hamid Karzai effectively secured a second term Sunday when his only challenger dropped out of the race, and the Obama administ...

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Clinton Makes Personal Bid To Resume Mideast Talks

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 11.01.2009 | World

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JERUSALEM — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that Israel is making "unprecedented" concessions on West Bank settleme...

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Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.30.2009 | World

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Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet

This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs: Iran Rejects Uranium Transfer Deal SI Analysis: In a show of shrewd and bizarre diplomacy, Iran says tha...

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Clinton Faces Pakistani Anger At Predator Drone Attacks

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.31.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton faced sharp rebukes from Pakistani audiences Friday, including one woman who accused ...

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Obama's White House is for Sale Just like All the Others

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

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Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Obama thundered he was the only candidate who didn't take a dime from Washington lobbyists. He hadn't taken a dime directly from them, but the favored few wealthy donors who don't have an L scribbled on their backside.

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Clinton In Pakistan: "We Are Turning The Page" On Involvement After 8 Years Of Bush

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

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ISLAMABAD — Offering sympathy for victims of Wednesday's terrorist bombing, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Pakistan's of...

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Exceptions To Derivatives Trading Rule Dilute Regulation

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business

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Derivatives regulation has been on the nation's financial reform agenda for months. Undoing the Clinton-era law that exempted swaps from oversight is ...

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The Vicious Cycle of Partisanship

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Joan E. Dowlin

Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...

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The Real Reason Obama Deserves the Nobel Win

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Ali A. Rizvi

The impact of Obama's election stretches far beyond even what Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "fierce urgency of now." It goes beyond race and beyond policy issues.

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Why I Held My Book Launch Party in a Hair Salon

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

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Dr. Irene S. Levine

Although many people were surprised before I explained why, deciding to have my launch party at Donna Hair Design in Chappaqua was a no-brainer

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Jack Shafer: Concerned About My Bank Balance, and Knows My Inner Motivations. Where Have You Been All My Life?

John Thornton | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

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John Thornton

The forty years between Kennedy and Clinton were an accident of economic and demographic history, resulting in a temporary but highly profitable industry structure for the papers that dominated their markets.

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The Rise And Fall Of New York: A Tragedy In 3 Acts

Nelson Montana | Posted 10.03.2009 | New York

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Nelson Montana

I still love this town. But it saddens me to see how far it's fallen. Can the rest of the country be far behind?

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The Shock and Awe of a Second Financial Meltdown

Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business

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Stephen Gyllenhaal

I have this nasty feeling that on the right, the big boys are happier than ever -- no reforms, no meddling in the existing structure and the memory fast fading of who actually caused that last meltdown.

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Help Heal Manhattan: How Health Care Will Impact New York

Nelson Montana | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

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Nelson Montana

When a congressman can actually heckle a presidential speech it's time to admit the political has been reduced to the same shouting and name calling that has become prime time entertainment.

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Congressman Elijah Cummings: It's Our Moral Responsibility

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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Kathleen Wells, J.D.

I talked extensively with Congressman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) and what is apparent is the Congressman's passion to reform our nation's health care system.

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Freeze the Settlement Freeze

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

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Daoud Kuttab

Israelis understand that the only reality in politics is the reality on the ground. So long as Israeli soldiers control the occupied territories, the idea of a settlement freeze will not take root. I

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Obama's Health Care Speech: Soaring Rhetoric, Scant Imagination

Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Marshall Auerback

Obama's speech was even weaker than the spin preceding the joint address to Congress suggested.

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Being a Great Professional

Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

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Marshall Goldsmith

Like great actors, inspirational leaders sometimes need to be consummate performers. It doesn't matter if they have a headache. They do whatever it takes to help their organization succeed.

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Obama Salutes Walter Cronkite At Memorial Service

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media

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NEW YORK — By all accounts, Walter Cronkite would have loved the war stories swapped and memories rekindled at his memorial service. All that wa...

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Taking Things Off the Table

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Obama absolutely loves the phrase "everything's on the table." But the time for piling "everything" on "the table" is over. Everything being on the table means that no decisions have been made.

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