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America and the World
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Friday Miscellany, Year-End 2011
A Navy sailor’s public kiss, a Ugandan activist’s courage, a hurrah for the Girl Scouts, and the passing of an accidental hero.
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End-of-a-Lifetime Chance
What are the prospects for a unified, nuclear-free Korea?
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The Last King of the Iron Curtain
What we’ve come to label as socialism can be more accurately described as old-school monarchy.
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There Goes the Last War Justification
Sectarian conflict returns to Iraq after last U.S. troops pull out.
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Vaclav Havel on Kim Jong-Il
Via @beingbrina, here is the Velvet Revolutionary’s comment on Dear Leader, in the Globe and Mail, 2004.
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Good vs. Evil
Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong-Il were a study in contrasts—one a leader who inspired greatness, the other a dictator who instilled fear.
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The Monster Rebels against Its Master
The Israeli government is fine with “breaking the rule of law”—as long as it’s state-sanctioned.
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Legislative Legerdemain
Right-wingers are just as fond of attaching demands to must-pass legislation across the pond.