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06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The Supreme Court and the next president The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to have a quiet year, that is, until the new administration takes office. The next president could shape the court for years to come.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The ultimate sun-block The melting of the polar ice cap in recent years is decades ahead of model predictions, raising concern that climate change is proving worse than expected.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Winning the battle, losing the faith A sound counterinsurgency strategy in Afghanistan requires bolstering the government's legitimacy. If faith in the government is lost, then so is the faith in the foreigners who prop it up.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion A hard-liner's call for peace It's a pity that Israeli leaders express themselves candidly about the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict only when they are out of office.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion James Carroll: Making sense of $700 billion Has the U.S. gutted the real worth of its economy by fueling massive over-investment in the military?
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Nicholas D. Kristof: Racism without racists One of this season's fallacies is that if Barack Obama is paying an electoral price for his skin tone, it must be because of racists. But the evidence shows he is facing what scholars have dubbed 'racism without racists.'
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Fear of death; Palin's debate performance; The Great Bailout; A new Bretton Woods accord Fear of death; Palin's debate performance; The Great Bailout; A new Bretton Woods accord
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Scraping the bottom For free speech not to be tainted by hate-filled propaganda, the presidential campaigns should identify the ads for what they are - a product that has little regard for rational debate.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Czar of all the dissidents? Anyone who rejects linear theories of history in favor of cycles had to feel vindicated last week after Russia's Supreme Court rehabilitated Czar Nicholas II and his family.
06-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion As the worm turns in the Big Apple As the big firms took ill and died, the whimpering began.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The bailout bill passes, but the meltdown continues The meltdown on Wall Street is only part of a larger meltdown, and the bailout bill is only one attempt at a fix.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion How can you be naked wearing shorts? The time has come to put up the dukes of moral hazard.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Another inconvenient truth Producing biofuels will further deplete the world's already overtaxed water supply.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The complexities of terror; Capitalism trumps socialism The complexities of terror; Capitalism trumps socialism
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Roger Cohen: Kiplin' vs. Palin Sarah Palin, Mainstreeter that she is, loves to drop her g's, so she'd no doubt call the poet Kiplin'. But could she have learned from him?
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Words that came too late It is tragic that Ehud Olmert, Israel's departing prime minister, did not do more to act on his true beliefs when he had real power.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion A manhunt or a vital war? Afghanistan is more than a manhunt, and it does matter, for reasons that have not been fully fleshed out by policy makers or the military.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Gail Collins: Talking in points This entire election season has been a long-running saga about the rise of women in American politics. On Thursday, it all went sour.
05-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Thomas L. Friedman: Swedish spoken here When the next president takes office, Americans should not be surprised when he spells out the ramifications of being a debtor nation.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion A new time for Israel; Blinking and bombs; Financial crisis; A new time for Israel
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Not immune from the inevitable Why did we think that we were only studying the lives of others?
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion They don't belong in battle The assignment to Iraq or Afghanistan of a service member who is the son or daughter of a president or vice president does not make sense.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Taking the long view Trade barriers will hurt the global economy more than any financial crisis ever could.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Hypocrisy on Main Street The titans of finance have been getting plenty of blame for the nation's financial crisis. But those of us who have also profited from Wall Street's dubious practices should take some of the responsibility.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Paul Krugman: A leadership vacuum At best, the financial bailout would buy some time to seek a real solution to the crisis.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion David Brooks: The Palin rebound During the vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin took her inexperience and made a mansion out of it.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The remarkable run of the Phoenix lander On the northern plains of Mars, the Phoenix has found subsurface and other chemical traces of the former presence of water, a prerequisite for life.
03-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The vice-presidential debate and Palin's candidacy The Alaskan governor beat expectations, but remains an poor choice for the job.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Too late for Olmert?; First, good intelligence; In praise of Gates; Washington's elitism Too late for Olmert?; First, good intelligence; In praise of Gates; Washington's elitism
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The other end of the line My brother's death meant that whatever memories I had of him were now ruined.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion A failing war Public sympathy for Al Qaeda persists in Pakistan and Egypt, alongside enormous U.S. financial and military aid to their governments.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Europe and Russia both have options If geopolitical relations decay further, the now sacred EU-Russia energy marriage could be in trouble.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The vicious circle The issue of energy security is like the arms race: Each effort by one side to ensure its stability provokes the other to build up its arsenal.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Nicholas D. Kristof: Save the fat cats By passing the bailout bill, America will avoid enduring a 'lost decade' similar to the one that Japan faced after failing to respond decisively to its banking crisis.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion America, Russia and terrorists of the seas If the Somali pirates inadvertently help bring Americans and Russians together to police sea lanes and guard against failed states, their crimes will have served the cause of international law and order.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion There's no time to lose for Pakistan's new spy chief There is hope that Pakistan's newly appointed spy chief will finally put an end to a dangerous double-game: using American aid to support the Taliban and other extremists.
02-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Beyond borders We owe it to those hit by today's crisis to take a long hard look at how to ensure stability and prosperity in the future.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Irrational exuberance Irrational exuberance
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Visions of the fallen A day in which you've witnessed death takes on an aura of fragile loveliness.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Heeding the lessons of another war The United States should seek to shape a regional concert that will stand some chance of containing Afghanistan's problems in the long term.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion This economy does not compute If we're going to avoid crises, we're going to need something more imaginative, starting with an open-minded attitude to how science can help us understand how markets work.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Maureen Dowd: Cool Hand Paul With the death of Paul Newman, we lost an icon who stood for shrewdness, humility, decency, generosity and class.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Thomas L. Friedman: Rescue the rescue America's leaders have gotten so out of practice of working together that even in the face of this meltdown they could not agree on a rescue package.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Roger Cohen: Nixon, Bush, Palin Bush's gambles on wars and derivatives leave fear stalking America.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Iraqis stand up In adopting a new election law by a unanimous vote last week, the Iraqi Parliament made clear that they recognize the benefits of waging power struggles by political means.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion The Justice Department gets serious For the investigation into the firing of United States attorneys to have credibility, the prosecutor must obtain testimony from Karl Rove and Harriet Miers.
01-10 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Finding common ground America has an important stake in the territorial integrity of an independent Georgia, but not in confrontational diplomacy toward Russia.
30-09 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Recognizing older people; Lost MBAs Recognizing older people; Lost MBAs
30-09 International Herald Tribune - Opinion Monique's dream Monique's hope lives on through a widening circle of people of helping women and children in Mali.
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