Books of the year 2008 (The New Statesman)
Julian Barnes's Nothing to Be Frightened of (Cape, £16.99) is a nice corrective to the one-note atheism of Dawkins and the rest. It is human, clever and full of doubt: "I don't believe in God, but I miss him . . ."
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Israel, India, and Pakistan: Engaging the Non-NPT States in the Nonproliferation Regime (Arms Control Association)
The problem at the top of the global nonproliferation agenda today, particularly as viewed by the Bush administration, is how to thwart the nuclear weapons ambitions of Iran and North Korea.
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In Iran, open arms, rich history await intrepid Westerners (USA Today)
Long branded as one of the world's most repressive and dangerous places, Iran is also among the most fascinating.
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Obama says will confront economic woes head-on (Tiscali)
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama said on Friday the United States was facing one of its greatest economic challenges and vowed to confront the crisis head-on as soon as he takes office in January.
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Geopolitical Diary: The 'World Electoral Map' (World Headlines)
As the U.S. presidential election approaches, all other events are on the back burner and the world is hushed, waiting in deafening silence for the next U.S. president to come to power.
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Obama faces global disarray, Mideast challenges (J. the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California)
President-elect Barack Obama emerges from a maelstrom into a vacuum. The Democratic senator from Illinois has survived the longest and roughest election season in memory to assume control of a free world in freefall: A collapsing economy, a resurgent Iran, an obstreperous Russia.
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Yes he did – the day change came to the US (Evening Standard)
HE DID it. Could a newcomer in the major league only four years ago really storm the White House gates as its first black incumbent? Yes, he really could.
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Mature Presidents Outperform Young (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! News)
Of all our presidents since World War II, the three who ranked highest among all American presidents in a 2005 survey of scholars by the Wall Street Journal were:
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Mature Presidents Outperform Young (Investor's Business Daily via Yahoo! Finance)
Of all our presidents since World War II, the three who ranked highest among all American presidents in a 2005 survey of scholars by the Wall...
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Esther J. Cepeda: Iran's Offensive in Latin America: The Chicago Connection (HuffingtonPost)
Tuesday morning, the Honorable Eyal Sela, Israel's Ambassador to Ecuador, held a roundtable discussion about Iran's growing influence in Latin America.
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