Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Wednesday's Top News: Rand Paul: A True Believer Tries to Survive a Rocky Campaign

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Rand Paul: A True Believer Tries to Survive a Rocky Campaign

By Alex Altman

A campaign altercation is the latest incident to mar what is turning out to be a tougher race for Kentucky Senate than some Republicans had expected

Afghan Militias: The Perils of Trying to Duplicate Iraq

By Jason Motlagh / Kabul

The less-than-sterling record of the Afghan army is leading U.S. commanders to press an Iraqi-militia model on Kabul. But Afghanistan is a very different country

Week On, Week Off Parenting: Does It Work?

By Belinda Luscombe

Revisiting a radical experiment in work-life balance

California's Misguided War on Violent Video Games

By Adam Cohen

The Supreme Court will hear the video-game industry's challenge to California's ban on selling violent video games to minors. The industry is arguing that the ban violates freedom of speech -- and it's right

Lardcore: Southern Food with Hard-Core Attitude

By Josh Ozersky

As a culinary movement, lardcore is meticulous, it's ballsy and it doesn't care what you think of it. In that, it's very Southern

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By Mark Thompson

You may recall early last week when we mentioned the pair of shootings at the Pentagon and the Marine museum at Quantico, Va., about 30 miles south. At the time, Pentagon officials thought the shootings "random" events but were studying "the possibility of a connection." Today they connected them, after ballistics tests showed that both [...]

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"Victory is impossible in Afghanistan. Obama is right to pull the troops out."
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV,
former leader of the Soviet Union, said during a BBC interview that the U.S. had no alternative but to withdraw its forces if it wanted to avoid another Vietnam
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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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