January 13, 2011
In Memoriam: Farewell Dear Dienstbier
Cairo, January 13, 2011 – Dear Dienstbier: I am saddened that I cannot tell you this in person. We had talked prior to my leaving on…
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December 31, 2010
Some thoughts to end 2010
In Transit, December 31, 2010 – Some have shown courage and resolve. Some have just piddled about. Others are moving very distinctly backwards. In Germany the…
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December 7, 2010
A bit of this and that
Cairo, Egypt, December 7, 2010 – It has been 2 ½ months since my last column. I took many notes – in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Morocco,…
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September 12, 2010
Obama Just Doesn’t Get It
Krynica/Warsaw, Poland Sept 12, 2010 – A day after the 9th Anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, I sit with a former ranking member of…
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August 15, 2010
Where all is not as it seems
The Front Lines, Baku and Budapest, August 15, 2010 – A quiet area of Nagorno-Karabakh belies the tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In Baku, an impressive…
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July 26, 2010
Rising and Falling From Grace
Madrid, July 26, 2010 – I met each of them under different circumstances. Each of them replaced a gentleman who had risen quickly, and sometimes controversially,…
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July 13, 2010
A Despicable Legacy
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 13 (UPI) -- They just won't go away. Twenty years after the fall of communism, much Central Europe's economy, politics and…
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May 23, 2010
Adam Michnik’s Poland
Prague, Czech Republic, May 23, 2010 - The files in his office are piled high, strewn about in a professorial but orderly way. On his wall…
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May 3, 2010
Brunner is the best for Ohio
Columbus, Ohio, May 3, 2010 -- Super Saver won the 136th Kentucky Derby on Saturday. The three year old was not the odds on favorite.…
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March 21, 2010
Corruption — ah corruption
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, March 21 (UPI) -- "You must continue to write about corruption," the young man says to me in the tram, holding his…
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