Archive for January 16th, 2006
Monday, January 16th, 2006
The Times on Liberia
Useful in depth piece on the nation and the new president, “ma Ellen.”
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Liberia Loves Condi Rice
This is not going to be big news anywhere, but Secretary of State Condolezza Rice and First Lady Laura Bush went to Liberia for the swearing-in of Liberia’s first female President, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, 67, who is also the first female president of any African nation. Rice, in particular, was treated as a hero there. According […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Television as Birth Control
According to an Italian study, couples who have a television in their bedrooms have sex half as often as those with no television there.
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Gore as an American Cassandra
Watching Gore, I can’t help but feel that this man has become America’s Cassandra, futilely sounding the alarm over and over again about the Bush administration, and destined to be repeatedly ignored even by members of his own party. As one DNC staffer sniffed recently when I asked him why he thought Gore’s speech was […]
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Al Gore on Domestic Spying
I could have gone down to Constitutiona Hall to see former Vice President Al Gore’s speech on Bush administration policies on domestic surveillance, however, I decided to watch it today on television, to see it as most people will. I find Gore is one of those politicians who plays much better in person than on […]
