February 1, 2008
Kiwis, Cows and Kangaroos
LONDON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- A famous vignette of World War II has Field Marshall Montgomery visiting a New Zealand regiment in North Africa. Montgomery's…
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January 10, 2008
Hillary’s tear to victory
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- Her defining moment is not really the tear she almost shed. The defining moment was her loss in Iowa.…
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January 4, 2008
Hillary’s aura evaporates
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- I have been telling the European political classes that U.S. elections are complicated. I have been explaining to them that…
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January 2, 2008
The death of honor in sports
VIENNA, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- I had a recent conversation with the sons of an old friend. They are in their teens and had overheard me…
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December 31, 2007
Pakistan’s drop to the abyss
MALMO, Sweden, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- "Musharraf will bring us to the brink," Pakistan's Ambassador Asif Ezdi said to me privately in Berlin in December 2002.…
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December 26, 2007
Voting, thuggery and fraud
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Dec. 26 (UPI) -- "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been…
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December 7, 2007
Lomeiko turns a new leaf
BADEN-BADEN, Germany, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- He accompanied Mikhail Gorbachev through Glasnost and Perestroika. His eloquent – if sometimes evasive – answers during the famous news…
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November 26, 2007
Howard’s painful finale
SEATTLE, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The writing had been on the wall for more than a year. But even 48 hours ago I did not quite…
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November 12, 2007
Radek Sikorski’s Patriotism
LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The people of Poland have spoken. Thankfully, they have dumped Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his xenophobic Law and Justice Party, or PiS,…
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