Saturday, October 9, 2010

Saturday's Top News: An Ex-U.S. Soldier Visits Iraq's Old Battlefields

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An Ex-U.S. Soldier Visits Iraq's Old Battlefields

By Nate Rawlings / Ramadi

Continuing his tour of Iraq, a former American soldier visits the area around Ramadi to see how a kind of normal life is taking hold after years of violence

California Teachers: Paying for School Supplies Themselves — and More

By Kristin Kloberdanz / Modesto

All over the budget-strapped state, public-school teachers are putting up their own money, raising funds or finding unorthodox ways of making their classrooms work

How Vargas Llosa's Journey Mirrored Latin America's Evolution

By Tim Padgett

The youthful leftist writer who became a right-winger and then a pragmatist exemplifies Latin America's political evolution

Israel: A Belly-Dance Video and the Specter of Delegitimization

By Karl Vick / Jerusalem

Some say bad apples are seized upon to question Israel's existence; others say it's the occupation that is rotting the apples

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By Michael Crowley

It seems that President Obama's car-in-a-ditch metaphor is more clever than it is effective. Check out these results from recent message-testing by Democracy Corps, the polling firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg: For some, going back to four years ago does not look so uninviting right now:  “I was doing a heckavah lot better [...]

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Can Britain's Conservatives Escape Thatcher's Legacy?

By Catherine Mayer

The Tories have worked hard to convince voters of their compassion but welfare cuts, announced at their annual conference, bring echoes of the party's bracing past

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