Nick Kristof in the New York Times on the choices facing Obama in Afghanistan: For the cost of a single additional soldier stationed in Afghanistan for one year, we could…
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Strange as it may seem but reviewers are people too and, like the rest of you ordinary folk, we have blind spots and mine is horror. Back when I was…
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Keira Knightley may only be 23 but (along with Daniel Craig and Simon Pegg) she's been given the unenviable job of saving the British film industry, a challenging task for…
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan on Christmas Day in 1979. They remained in the country, brutally suppressing the local resistance, until they were forced to leave in 1989: almost ten…
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