When I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I always discussed with my most trusted friends what it might be like to live in a free world. We were locked behind the Iron Curtain and none of us believed we would live to see the fall of the communist dictatorship. My father used to say: "Every dictatorship will fall one day because it is inhuman, it is not natural. But communism is here for a long haul. We are not going to see it in our life times." Thank God, we were all wrong.
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National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the United States is using techniques developed during the Cold War to support reformers in the Islamic world, sowing seeds she hopes will end Islamic terrorism.
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When I was a teenager and in my early twenties, I always discussed with my most trusted friends what it might be like to live in a free world. We were locked behind the Iron Curtain and none of us believed we would live to see the fall of the communist dictatorship. My father used to say: "Every dictatorship will fall one day because it is inhuman, it is not natural. But communism is here for a long haul. We are not going to see it in our life times." Thank God, we were all wrong.
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders is urging nations to not recognize the results of Iran's presidential election, citing censorship and a crackdown on journalists.
Nineteen North Koreans have been released from detention in Myanmar and sent to Thailand, Burmese officials told the U.S.-funded Voice of America news service Thursday.
According to a recent Gallup poll, a large majority of Americans believe rich folks and corporations pay too little in taxes (68% and 69%, respectively); a slim majority (51%) also think the poor p...
A top official at National Public Radio blamed a proposed $100 million federal budget cut for public broadcasting on "irresponsible" charges of political bias made by the head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting itself.
There's a reason that you are not in the first sentence of this story—and that Fern Reiss is. Is it that she has authored five whole books? That she has been quoted in more than 100 publications, i...
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Thursday the United States is using techniques developed during the Cold War to support reformers in the Islamic world, sowing seeds she hopes will end Islamic terrorism.
Watching the national drama unfold in Russia, one question burns in TV viewers' minds: Why do Moscow correspondents say Mos-coe (as in "Roscoe") and not Mos-cow, as most Americans pronounce it? Nei...
Columbia Records President James Conkling "lives like a TV program, on a split-second schedule," FORTUNE reported in "How Top Executives Live" (July 1955). "While he brushes his teeth, his wife sho...
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