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    Big Plans But Smaller Bucks for Asia

    Aug 03, 2012 06:10 PM EST

    ... several think tank analysts agree on is that China is pursuing confusing objectives. At a press conference call this week at the Council on Foreign Relations, analysts Joshua Kurlantzick and Bonnie Glaser said China was driving countries that earlier wanted some distance from the United States -- the Philippines, Vietnam and ...

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    'Hell and Back Again': What it Means to Lead Men in War, and Then Return Home

    May 28, 2012 10:44 PM EST

    ... to a scene of him and his wife in the car after they have visited the doctor. So let's roll that. SGT. NATHAN HARRIS, U.S. Marine Corps: No. Johnson, I need you to go up there and check the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) bag, get the turf, talk to these ...

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    Presidential Campaigns Pause to Honor Veterans on Memorial Day

    May 28, 2012 01:57 PM EST

    ... message to veterans across the country Monday by noting the day "holds special significance because it marks the beginning of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War." "After Vietnam, our veterans didn't always receive the respect and thanks they deserved. At times they were neglected and even shunned, which ...

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    Lugar's Loss Follows 'Curse' of Senate's Foreign Policy Committee

    May 08, 2012 11:55 PM EST

    ... that august title are treated with great deference in Washington -- many embassy invitations, overseas travel and morsels of classified information from the president and top U.S. officials -- but their constituents wind up wondering if their senator is spending too much time worrying about problems abroad and not enough about ...

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    Who Is Chinese Activist Chen Guangcheng?

    Apr 30, 2012 06:22 PM EST

    Chinese guards march outside the U.S. embassy compound in Beijing. Photo by Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images. The whereabouts of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng remain unclear Monday. He escaped house arrest in his village last week and reportedly sought asylum at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Assistant ...

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    Obama: Congress Must 'Get it Done' on Debt Limit

    Jun 29, 2011 02:41 PM EST

    ... NATO operations and as a consequence we've protected thousands of people in Libya," he said, pointing out that there has not been a single U.S. casualty in the operation. He said "a lot of this fuss is politics" and that the War Powers Act controversy has become a ...

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    Albright: Bin Laden Death a 'Very Big Victory,' But Not 'Happily Ever After'

    May 02, 2011 10:32 PM EST

    Jim Lehrer discusses the impact of Osama bin Laden's death on U.S. foreign policy and efforts to fight extremism with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Chuck Hagel.

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    At Stanford, Debate Brews Over Reviving ROTC Program on Campus

    Apr 25, 2011 10:30 PM EST

    Decades after protests surrounding the Vietnam War, some private universities are taking another look at bringing back Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs, but the idea is rekindling some decades-old disputes over military presence on campuses. Spencer Michels reports on how the debate is playing out at Stanford.

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    Q&A With Military Historian: Relieving Generals 'Rare' in Time of War

    Jun 23, 2010 07:45 PM EST

    President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he accepted Gen. Stanley McChrystal's resignation as the top commander in Afghanistan, over critical comments he made in a Rolling Stone article, and would replace him with Gen. David Petraeus, currently head of U.S. Central Command.

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    Deborah Eisenberg, Writer and MacArthur Winner

    Oct 20, 2009 04:00 PM EST

    A recipient of a 2009 MacArthur genius grant, Deborah Eisenberg has been publishing spare and elegant short fiction to national acclaim since the '80s, winning the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2000, a Guggenheim fellowship and three O. Henry Awards.