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Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, which promotes itself as “an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource to help people better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.” Unsurprisingly, Haass is a mainstay on TV talk shows,… Read more.
So much media coverage attended the trial and conviction of Amanda Knox six years ago that commentators fairly described it as the most sensational since the trial and acquittal of O.J. Simpson. Here is an excerpt from “American Student Amanda Knox Guilty of Murder in Italy,” December 9, 2009, in which I registered my take.… Read more.
Recall that Jeremy Clarkson reportedly gave defenseless Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon a mind-boggling twenty-minute tongue lashing, before raining down a torrent of physical blows on him. All this just because the hotel where they were shooting on location had only cold food available, instead of the sizzling steak and crisp chips he expected to… Read more.
Yemen’s embattled president was pushed deeper into crisis Wednesday after fleeing a last-ditch refuge as advancing Shiite rebels seized a key air base to add another prize to their expanding territory. The whereabouts of Western-allied President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi was not immediately clear. But any further disintegration of Hadi’s power would tip Yemen closer… Read more.
A German jetliner en route from Barcelona, Spain, to Düsseldorf, Germany, plunged from the sky on Tuesday and slammed into the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board. Helicopters and rescue personnel swarmed into the remote, rugged area in southeastern France after the crash but found no signs of life. Prime Minister Manuel Valls… Read more.
Thirty years ago, I was thriving in NCAA Division III swimming. And I thought I was hot stuff. That’s why I never imagined a Black swimmer like me would be dominating Division 1. Black women dominate swimming Yet, many Black women swimmers are doing just that these days. African-American swimmers took the top three finishes in a… Read more.
Elton John, after calling for a boycott against Dolce & Gabbana, was photographed carrying a Dolce & Gabbana shopping bag into a Los Angeles recording studio March 16, according to CBS News. John was spotted with the shopping bag after he had sworn on his Instagram account that he’d never wear anything from the designers again, blasting… Read more.
Lee Kuan Yew, who founded modern Singapore and was both feared for his authoritarian tactics and admired for turning the city-state into one of the world’s richest nations, died Monday… The country’s first and longest-serving prime minister, Lee guided Singapore through a traumatic split with Malaysia in 1965 and helped transform what was then a… Read more.
