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Why Stop with the Kennedy Center? Cabinet Officials add Hyphenated -Trump to their Names
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The renaming of the Performing Arts Center followed a renaming that created the Donald J. Trump Institute for Peace

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West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

West Antarctica’s History of rapid Melting Foretells sudden Shifts in Continent’s ‘catastrophic’ Geology

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From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq's old Arteries challenge modern Myths

From Steamships to Sovereignty: How Iraq’s old Arteries challenge modern Myths

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Impact Of Saddam Arrest On Us Politics

Impact Of Saddam Arrest On Us Politics

Impact of Saddam Arrest on US Politics The capture of Saddam is probably more important for US politics than for the Iraqis. The Baath Party […]

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Celebrations In Dearborn Arab Americans

Celebrations In Dearborn Arab Americans

Celebrations in Dearborn Arab-Americans in southwest Detroit came out into the frosty streets to celebrate Saddam’s capture, reports Nancy Youssef of the Detroit Free Press. […]

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Musharraf Nearly Blown Up On Any Other

Musharraf Nearly Blown Up On Any Other

Musharraf Nearly Blown Up On any other day it would be front-page news. As Dawn notes, General Pervez Musharraf, who styles himself president of Pakistan, […]

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Iraqi Joke About Capture Of Saddam Ash

Iraqi Joke About Capture Of Saddam Ash

Iraqi Joke about the Capture of Saddam Ash-Sharq al-Awsat says the following is making the rounds in Baghdad: ‘Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the former Information Ministry […]

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Rumors Of Iran Connection To Arrest Of

Rumors Of Iran Connection To Arrest Of

Rumors of Iran Connection to Arrest of Saddam Questioned Ali Nourizadeh, writing in the London-based Saudi daily, ash-Sharq al-Awsat, reports that rumors have swirled in […]

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Reflections On Capture Of Saddam

Reflections On Capture Of Saddam

Reflections on the Capture of Saddam Hussein Seeing a captive, disheveled Saddam on television this morning released a cascade of memories for me. I remembered […]

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20 Die In Car Bomb At Khaldiya Police

20 Die In Car Bomb At Khaldiya Police

20 Die in Car Bomb at Khaldiya Police Station Guerrillas exploded a car bomb at an Iraqi police station in Khaldiya, west of Baghdad, on […]

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Continued Opposition To Us Fiat In Iraq

Continued Opposition To Us Fiat In Iraq

Continued Opposition to the US Fiat in Iraq The possibility of a United Nations Commission that would decide whether early elections should be held in […]

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3000 Iranian Pilgrims Day Foreseen For

3000 Iranian Pilgrims Day Foreseen For

3000 Iranian Pilgrims a Day foreseen for Iraq According to AFP, another son of SCIRI leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, Muhsin al-Hakim, announced that he had […]

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