Archive for the ‘Foreign Relations’ Category
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Power Play
Posted on July 20, 2010
In the middle of a very hot summer, I have hockey on my mind. It’s on my mind, not only because the team of my boyhood dreams – The Chicago...
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Blood and Iron
Posted on July 7, 2010
The nature of national identity came to my mind as I watched the World Cup yesterday. South Africa is hosting the soccer tournament, the first time an African nation has...
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World Cup
Posted on June 14, 2010
Like Big Wheels, I missed the soccer generation. Let me explain. My younger brother was the first in my family to get a Big Wheel, because they came out just...
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America is Doomed?
Posted on May 27, 2010
I was watching television this morning and CNN was alternating between video of the great Gulf leak and a video from the Hubble telescope of a planet getting eaten by...
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Greece: Beginning and Ends
Posted on May 11, 2010
A little more than 2300 years ago, Alexander the Great rampaged out of Greece into Asia Minor, and Greek civilization reached its largest sphere of influence. A few centuries later,...
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