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Herbert Lynn heads to Indonesia
Staff WriterCulture shock is a welcome challenge for Herbert Lynn. He has received a Fulbright scholarship to go to Indonesia for an English teaching assistantship where he will teach high school students conversational English. Indonesia is a southeastern Asian...Tags: Education, Culture, Indonesia, Arts and Culture, Iowa
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Centre grad trying to get out of Egypt
msimpson@amnews.comFulbright English teaching assistant Morgan Smith traveled to Alexandria, Egypt, this fall for an up-close and personal look at relics of the country’s past. But when mass protests broke out last week in Cairo, the recent Centre College graduate...Tags: Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), Cairo (Egypt), Colleges and Universities, Egypt
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Iran has boosted uranium enrichment capacity, report says
WASHINGTON -- Iran further increased its uranium enrichment capacity in the last three months, yet it also limited its progress in certain sensitive areas of its disputed nuclear program in an apparent attempt to avoid risking retaliation from Israel or...Tags: Politics, International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Weapons, United Nations
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Fourth American fatality by U.S. drones disclosed
WASHINGTON — As President Obama prepared to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday, his administration acknowledged for the first time that it had killed four U.S. citizens — one more than previously known — in drone...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Department of Defense, Barack Obama
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Explanations needed
I do not see how Obama can be an effective president until he and others in his administration come clean with Congress and the American people. It will be extremely difficult for him to promote any of his second-term agenda until we receive answers to...Tags: U.S. Congress, Jay Carney, Whitehall, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Internal Revenue Service
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Is Obama Richard Nixon?
Despite what you may hear from some of his more fevered critics, President Barack Obama's recent scandal-quakes don't appear to fall anywhere near the level of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. But by another Nixonian yardstick, trying to muzzle on press...Tags: Justice System, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Justice, Pentagon Papers Release (2011)
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Politics, Justice System, Barack Obama, White House, Republican Party
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Welcome mat out for gay, lesbian travelers
At the kickoff of the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association's annual convention this month, that organization's strides — not to mention the entire nation's — were no more clear than on a simple United Airlines banner beside the...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, United Air Lines, Hotels and Accommodations, Air Transportation Industry, Travel
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FBI spied on Fox News reporter, accused him of crime
WASHINGTON — The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter's personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government...
Tags: Politics, Justice System, Criminals, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of Justice
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Peace Corps opens door for same-sex couples to serve together
The U.S. Peace Corps will begin accepting applications from same-sex couples who wish to serve overseas together for the first time next month, the agency announced Tuesday. The move follows a broader shift by the Obama administration toward publicly...Tags: Social Issues, John F. Kennedy, Gays and Lesbians, Peace Corps
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Russian adoption ban leaves U.S. families in an agonizing limbo
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Andy and Bethany Nagel left photos of themselves at the orphanage for the little boy with Down syndrome who was going to be their son. We'll be back, they told 4-year-old Timofey, blowing kisses from the doorway and...
Tags: Politics, Justice and Rights, Russia, Civil Rights, Toy Industry
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Gov. Scott signs elections bill extending early voting
Tallahassee Bureau ChiefTALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Rick Scott has signed an elections bill that attempts to reverse some of the restrictions the Republican-controlled Legislature put in place in 2011, including allowing more early-voting. The legislation is a response to the ridicule...Tags: Politics, Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Barack Obama, Government, Polls
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