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The No-Longer-So-Secret Swiss Bank Account
Bankers from Credit Suisse, one of the world's largest financial institutions, courted wealthy Americans in airports, at family weddings and on golf courses from Florida to the Bahamas with a simple pitch: We'll help you hide your money. The bankers...
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Wed, Feb 02 2014 1:41 PM
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Sex, Spies, and Videotape: Why 'House of Cards' Has Nothing on 'The Americans'
You know that Washington D.C.-based drama, the one with all the murder, sex, intrigue, and timely political innuendoes? No, no, not House of Cards . The one with all the wigs . You know, The Americans . With tonight's debut of season two of FX's...
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Wed, Feb 02 2014 7:48 AM
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All (Not) Quiet on Ukraine’s Eastern Front
Revolutionaries in Kiev are cheering the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, but elsewhere in the country a backlash is not so quietly brewing between the country's pro-Western protest movement and those who would much rather see the...
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Tue, Feb 02 2014 3:36 PM
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Can Yulia Tymoshenko Lead Ukraine Out of Crisis?
On Saturday, Yulia Tymoshenko, the heroine of the 2004 Orange Revolution and a politician who has come to be seen as the martyr of the Ukrainian opposition, walked out of jail a free woman. Together with the impeachment and flight of President Viktor...
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Sat, Feb 02 2014 6:51 PM
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Think That Kiev Agreement Will Hold? Think Again.
After days of bloody street battles in central Kiev that may have left as many as 100 people dead, protest leaders signed an agreement Friday with Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to end the stand-off. The deal curtails the powers of the president...
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Fri, Feb 02 2014 8:57 AM
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Does Amy Chua Understand China?
The Triple Package , the book released Feb. 4 by "Tiger Mom" author and provocateur Amy Chua and her husband, constitutional law expert and novelist Jed Rubenfeld, is unsurprisingly controversial. The authors, both professors at Yale Law School...
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Tue, Feb 02 2014 5:26 AM
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Did the Latest State Dept. Report Just Make Keystone Inevitable?
Environmentalists can chain themselves to the White House fence all they want: the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline appears to be slowly but surely headed for approval. On Friday afternoon, that time of day for rolling out news the White House would like...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 5:41 PM
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Will American Troops Return to Philippine Bases?
When Typhoon Haiyan cut a devastating swathe of destruction through the central Philippines last November, the U.S. military was among the first to respond. In a matter of weeks and days, the United States delivered nearly 1,000 personnel, 50 ships and...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 9:36 AM
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State of the Union: The Promises Obama Did(n't) Keep
If, like me, you sat down on Monday to read all of President Obama's State of the Union addresses delivered since he took office in early 2009, you'd be forgiven for thinking that foreign policy has served as something of a footnote during his...
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Tue, Jan 01 2014 1:48 PM
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Texas to Washington: Executing Mexicans Is Our Business, Not Yours
When Texas executed Edgar Arias Tomayo on Thursday, he became the third Mexican national to receive the death penalty in that state since 2008. And if it takes three events to establish a trend, then the trend is set: Every few years, Texas begins the...
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Fri, Jan 01 2014 3:29 PM
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Q&A With Filmmakers Behind Oscar-Nominated Tahrir Doc
On Thursday morning, a day before its release on Netflix, The Square was nominated for the Academy Award for best documentary. The film chronicles two and a half years of protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square, following a handful of revolutionaries through...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 12:50 PM
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Shoes, Jewels, and Monets: The Immense Ill-Gotten Wealth of Imelda Marcos
During their two-decade conjugal dictatorship, as it came to be known, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos pillaged up to $10 billion from Philippine coffers to finance their extravagant lifestyle. Nearly 20 years after their downfall, and in spite of an extensive...
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Thu, Jan 01 2014 6:50 AM
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Russian Human Rights Report Casts Europe as Land of *** and Gay Propaganda
According to an annual report on human rights in the European Union issued by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Europe is a dark, dark place, filled with *** and xenophobes. The massive, 153-page "unofficial translation" of the report...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 3:18 PM
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In Bangkok, Sowing Chaos to Provoke a Coup
Don't be fooled by the tens of thousands of protesters in the streets. Massive demonstrations that have blossomed in the streets of Thailand this week have very little to do with democracy. Instead, those protesters hope to oust the current government...
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Wed, Jan 01 2014 12:29 PM
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Hollande Tries to Kickstart His Presidency Like the Scooter He Rides to His Trysts
He's the most unpopular French president in modern memory. He's struggled to jumpstart his country's sluggish economy. And on Tuesday French President Francois Hollande faced an assembled 500 journalists to present his plan for how to bring...
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Tue, Jan 01 2014 2:14 PM
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