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18 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS he had broken both legs. An army spokesman could not confirm that Snowden injured his legs or that he was in fact dropped from the program for medical reasons. Under his TrueHooHa alias, Snowden wrote that “they [the army] held on to me until t...

an effort to avoid civil conflict. Disregarding their advice, President Saleh remains convinced that he will be able to stem the uprising and maintain his control of the government. On Sunday night, President Saleh ordered units of the Republican Guard and Central Security—comma...

every aspect of the killings — including any failings by the army, the Shin Bet, the police or other authorities that might have allowed the tragedy to happen. The commission interviewed dozens of witnesses, Israeli and Palestinian, in 31 separate sessions. I knew early on that t...

 17 April, 2011 Article 1. Wall Street Journal The New Cold War Bill Spindle and Margaret Coker Article 2. The New York Post The storm in Syria Amir Taheri Article 3. The American Interest Political Order in Egypt Francis Fukuyama Article 4. NYT The Budget Debate, Revealed Rich...

… philosophy and medicine at the source. Beijing had yet to open its bor- ders to Americans, but Kaptchuk hoped that his revolutionary bona fides would prompt the leadership to make an excep- tion. “My request to study there was de- THE NEW YORKER, DECEMBER 12, 201 35 HOUSE_OVER...

…upon which modern biology is built. But he glosses over the fact that biology is in the midst of a new - some would say revolutionary - effort to catalogue Earth's biological diversity, using a short sequence of each organism's DNA called DNA barcodes. They have verified past spe...

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…he reason the legitimacy of old leaders is failing, the reason our strategy is incoherent, the reason our age really is revolutionary, is that they are all sitting in the midst of these pulling, powerful forces. We should steel ourselves for the shredding imminence of this violen...

…ocess is dead Israel – at more serious risk than in living memory Afpak – a mess Obama has made no big mistakes in a revolutionary environment, but no victories either. No big bets other than surge in Afghan – which we lost; and killing Osama which we won. Obama’s approach i...

…h address left a trail of foreign-policy cookie crumbs that lead directly to some pretty clear, if hardly surprising or revolutionary, conclusions. His first term contained no spectacular successes (save killing Osama bin Laden), but no spectacular failures either. And more than...

… Jerusalem by a Palestinian gunman. 23 July 1952 Military coup in Egypt by the Free Officers Movement. 18 June 1953 The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) abolishes the monarchy and proclaims the Republic of Egypt. 23 June 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected President of the Repu...

… as types of democratic rule. They even devise terms to describe their special variant, such as “sovereign democracy,” “revolutionary democra- cy," or “illiberal democracy." 6. Return of the leader for life: Among the changes invariably instituted by modern authoritarians is the...

…. Some are as unimaginable to us now as a voting booth would have been to an Egyptian slave. When we say that ours is a revolutionary age, it’s not because you can watch videos on your phone. It’s because of why you can watch video on your phone - and what that implies for the ol...

…who did it first. “Goodbye Surfing, Hello God!” is Jules’s most famous example of rock journalism, but | think his most revolutionary is his article “The Big Beat.” It appeared in the Playboy-esque Cavalier magazine in 1965 and is one of the earliest writings I’ve ever seen on th...

…st step in that regard would be to let Iran know that Washington respects it as a nation- state and not a transnational revolutionary movement. Finally, disorganization within the U.S. government and a "go it alone" mentality have accounted for many of Washington's internal diff...