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...exercise in narrow-minded dogmatic groupthink, offering little for thoughtful discussion and more than enough material for late-night lampooning. The speakers typically spoon-feed an eager audience exactly what they paid to hear. Romney for President 2.0. Revolutionary Storytelling with Michele Bachmann. An Excoriation of Woodrow Wilson by Dr. Ron Paul: Or, Why Warren Harding was a Great Man. (Maybe not so much that...
...India civilian nuclear deal was in the first. Pakistan, meanwhile, is looking for a settlement of its long fight with India over Kashmir, something that the U.S. believes is a key to long-term stability in the region, especially Afghanistan. "In essence, this is a 'talk about talks,' " says Wilson John, a senior fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, a think tank in New Delhi. "If you ignore the public posturings, both the countries are serious about reopening the dialogue." (See pictures of terrorism in Mumbai...
...fact that Charlie Wilson's heart--his second--finally gave out wasn't all that surprising when you consider how much he lived. Wilson, a former Texas Congressman who died Feb. 10 at 76, was the kind of man who would declare on 60 Minutes, "I love stickin' it to the Russians." The kind of man who would bring his then girlfriend, a former Miss World USA, on a fact-finding trip to Pakistan. The kind of man, his House colleagues used to say, who could strut while sitting down. Still, he was elected 12 times from Lufkin, Texas...
...most cerebral President since Woodrow Wilson, Obama has more in common with Atticus Finch than with Arianna Huffington. A persuader by instinct, he is trapped inside a political culture that has lost any instinct for persuasion. That he is the third consecutive President to polarize the electorate - the fourth in five if one looks beyond the posthumous regard accorded Ronald Reagan - reveals more about us than about him. It is no accident that the past three decades have seen the rise of sound-bite politics, of snarky bloggers and strident talk radio, not to mention cable "news" largely preoccupied with...
...Among the results: King Tut was probably not murdered, despite some popular theories to the contrary. And he probably didn't suffer from a long list of diseases that experts have speculated about, including, as the report lists them (deep breath), "Marfan syndrome, Wilson-Turner X-linked mental retardation syndrome, Fröhlich syndrome, Klinefelter syndrome, androgen insensitivity syndrome, aromatase excess syndrome in conjunction with sagittal craniosynostosis syndrome or Antley-Bixler syndrome or a variant form." (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...