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OPINION: Is 18 years too long to wait to vote?
The Virginian-PilotIf everything goes according to plan, at lunchtime today my church will vote on a new pastor. Every member of every age will fill out a paper ballot with an aye or nay. I've been one for only a dozen years, but I'm told this kind of democracy is the...Tags: Elections, Voting, Democracy, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC
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There's a difference between communism and socialism
Doesn't anyone in this country know the difference between communism and socialism? Russia had communism, or whatever it is called now, and Sweden has socialism. I have been to both places and they are not the same by any means. Sweden has its share...Tags: Politics, IKEA, Russia
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Former Argentine dictator Jorge Videla dies of natural causes at age 87 serving life in prison
Associated PressBUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called "subversives," died...Tags: Trials, Murder, Justice and Rights, Civil Rights, Kidnapping
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Bucharest
ReutersBUCHAREST (Reuters) - Got 48 hours to explore Romania's capital and its eclectic mix of western architectural ideas, eastern imagery, 20th century totalitarian megalomania and buzzing nightlife? Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help visitors...Tags: Politics, Arts and Culture, Music, Artists, Museums
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Special Report - In Myanmar, apartheid tactics against minority Muslims
ReutersSITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - A 16-year-old Muslim boy lay dying on a thin metal table. Bitten by a rabid dog a month ago, he convulsed and drooled as his parents wedged a stick between his teeth to stop him from biting off his tongue. Swift treatment...Tags: Prosecution, Blackmail and Extortion, Buddhism, Islam, Malaysia
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EDITORIAL: Come on, Xi Jinping, act on your communist ideals
China PostTAIPEI (The China Post/ANN) -- The title of a book by the late American sinologist Benjamin I. Schwartz, "In Search of Wealth and Power," rather accurately sums up the preoccupation of generations of Chinese intellectuals, reformers and revolutionaries in...Tags: Germany, Communist Party of China, China, Politics, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Bulgarian parties struggle to form government
ReutersSOFIA (Reuters) - The center-right GERB has emerged from Bulgaria's election as the largest party but it is short of coalition options, and any new government will almost certainly need backing from a nationalist party which alarms the European Union....Tags: Market and Exchange, Prosecution, Bulgaria, Justice System, Money and Monetary Policy
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The Miami Herald Myriam Marquez column
Miami HeraldIn her mind's eye, Elsa Morejon looks from Miami at her beloved island and worries that what ails Cuba will not be cured solely with democracy. What ails Cuba, the humble Baptist nurse says with conviction, is a gaping hole in spirituality, a people who...Tags: Benedict XVI, Human Rights, Ethics, Travel, Politics
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Hans M. Wuerth: 'Where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people'
When on Jan. 30, 1933, then-German President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as the country's chancellor, it changed German as well as world history. Twelve years later, Hitler ended his own life, but not before millions of victims had perished. Several...Tags: Ernest Hemingway, Authors, New York City, Politics, Fine Artists
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EU-bound Croatia craves investors but drags feet on reforms
Reuters* Red tape suffocates investment * Trails peers in attracting foreign investment * Croatia four years in recession * Some local firms move production to non-EU neighbours By Igor Ilic and Sasa Kavic DUBROVNIK, Croatia, May 10 (Reuters) - The barren...Tags: Landforms, Slovakia, Balkan Peninsula, Mountains, Consumer Goods Industries
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Odessa American, Texas, Nathaniel Miller column
Odessa American, TexasI can't wait for the Ector County Independent School District school board election to be over. Never in my life have I had the word "socialism" used about classroom policies and procedures. Former candidate for Place 5 George Rice ran on an anti-...Tags: U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Department of Energy, National Government, Media Industry, Politics
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The filibuster kills gun legislation and democracy
President Obama called it a shameful day for the Senate. A survivor of the Tucson shooting that wounded Gabby Giffords shouted from the gallery, "Shame on you." This was the response to the rejection of gun control. I was tempted to write the "voting...Tags: Democracy, Mitch McConnell, Politics, Barack Obama, Elections
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