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COLUMN - The growing Franco-German schism
Reuters(Frederick Kempe is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Frederick Kempe May 13 (Reuters) - Occasionally a public opinion survey surfaces that signals a seismic event. That is the case with a new report from the Pew Research Center that...Tags: Czech Republic, The New York Times, Economy, Business and Finance, Labor Markets, Francois Hollande
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The growing Franco-German schism
Reuters(Reuters) - Occasionally a public opinion survey surfaces that signals a seismic event. That is the case with a new report from the Pew Research Center that measures the widening tremors of a political earthquake now shaking Europe. Although the report...Tags: Czech Republic, The New York Times, Labor Markets, Economy, Business and Finance, Francois Hollande
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Pentagon contract awards shrink in half with federal cuts
The number of Defense Department-awarded contracts fell 52 percent from March to April as sequestration became a reality on March 1, the Washington Post reported. The value of announced awards was 22 percent lower than a year earlier. The Pentagon... -
10 things you might not know about hamburgers
May is National Hamburger Month, and the industry hopes you'll forget all about last month, when a Utah man attracted publicity by claiming he had a 14-year-old McDonald's hamburger that has never been refrigerated yet looks like new — no mold, no...
Tags: International Military Interventions, White House, In-N-Out Burger, Gordon Brown, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Errors continue to haunt Nats' third baseman
ReutersThe Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Washington Nationals - INSIDE PITCH Nationals' third baseman Ryan Zimmerman continues to have the backing of manager Davey Johnson despite his defensive issues. The question is -- for how long? Zimmerman's always...Tags: Washington Nationals, Jayson Werth, Henry Rodriguez, Wilson Ramos, Jordan Zimmermann
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Column: Ghosts of Christmas past seen in immigration debate
WASHINGTON — Charles Dickens’ "A Christmas Carol" is a gooey confection of seasonal sentiment. It also is an economic manifesto that Dickens hoped would hit with "twenty thousand times the force" of a political tract. It concerned a 19th-...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Economy, Business and Finance, Religious Festivals, Labor Markets, Religion and Belief
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Pink line over Damascus
WASHINGTON — You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met President Barack Obama's fudging and fumbling of his chemical-weapons red line in Syria, the White House leaked...
Tags: Weaponry, The New York Times, Military Equipment, Libyan No-Fly Zone (2011), White House
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Triple Crown thoroughbreds aren't running as fast
As Orb charged to the wire at Churchill Downs last weekend, he established his clear superiority to the other 18 thoroughbreds on horse racing's biggest stage, the Kentucky Derby. But compared to Derby champions of the past, Orb's time is less...
Tags: 2012 Summer Olympics, Track and Field, Services and Shopping, Equestrian, Swimming
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Benghazi hearing give GOP another chance to target Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the...Tags: Martin O'Malley, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Hillary Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Elections
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Farming: 'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American’s right to free speech yet guarded “community standards”...Tags: Orrin Hatch, Political Corruption, National Government, U.S. Congress, Gross Domestic Product
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Anchee Min on her memoir, "The Cooked Seed"
In “Red Azalea,” her best-selling 1994 memoir, Anchee Min told the compelling story of her childhood and early adulthood in China during the Cultural Revolution. The daughter of former teachers who were reassigned to jobs as manual laborers in...Tags: Authors, Arts and Culture, Dentistry and Dental Health, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Entertainment Events
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GOP, Democrats continue to dispute regarding Benghazi deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats. History...
Tags: White House, Gerald Ford, Monica Lewinsky, John Boehner, Government
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