Atomic Agency Opts to Snub Iran's Request for Help With Reactor
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/world/middleeast/23iran.html?ref=3Dworld
By MARK LANDLER
The International Atomic Energy Agency will rebuff Iran's request for
help with a nuclear reactor that would produce plutonium as a
byproduct.
Mexican Report Cites Leaders for 'Dirty War'
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/world/americas/23mexico.html?ref=3Dworld
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
The report is the first acceptance of responsibility by the government
for a covert campaign of murder against dissidents.
A Tiny Window on the U.S., Prized by Those Peering In
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/world/asia/23myanmar.html?ref=3Dworld
By JANE PERLEZ
Myanmar's bustling American Center is testimony to how a library can
burnish America's reputation and comfort those living under
autocratic rulers.
Canadian Prime Minister Is Ready to Loosen Federal Ties to Quebec
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/world/americas/23canada.html?ref=3Dameric=
as
By CHRISTOPHER MASON
A surprise motion by Canada's prime minister proposed that Quebecers
be recognized as a nation within Canada.
A Cinematic View of Italy as Morally Bankrupt
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/movies/23casa.html?ref=3Deurope
By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
"A Casa Nostra" ("In Our House"), directed by Francesca
Comencini, portrays a land and its people destroyed by the pursuit of
lira and filthy lucre.
So, You Messed Up. Deal With It. Now.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/fashion/23blunders.html?ref=3Dus&pagewant=
ed=3Dall
By STEPHANIE ROSENBLOOM
Nancy Pelosi's public blunder has lessons for the workplace, too.
Spoils of Prime Office Space Go to Democrats
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/us/politics/22cong.html?ref=3Dpolitics
By CARL HULSE
As Democrats move in, Republicans are planning to squeeze into the
current, tighter digs of the Democrats.
Free Thinking To the End
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR200611220=
1621.html
By David S. Broder
Thursday, November 23, 2006; Page A39
The big names of the economics profession and the best business
journalists have offered deserved praise to Milton Friedman, the great
man of 20th-century economics who died last week at 94. I would like to
add a footnote about his political shrewdness and his partner in a life
that brightened so many others' experience.
I had two encounters with Milton Friedman, at an interval of more than
50 years. The first came when I was a student at the University of
Chicago, where he was a young member of the economics faculty.
The Consummate American Holiday
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1604.html
By Jon Meacham
Thursday, November 23, 2006; Page A39
Abraham Lincoln knew he was in tricky territory. It was the first week
of October 1863, and the president was issuing a proclamation declaring
Thanksgiving a national holiday. The culmination of a campaign led by
the editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Lincoln's words were calibrated to
appeal to Americans of any religious inclination -- and of none at all.
Despite "the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the
battle-field," Lincoln wrote, the fields had been so fruitful and the
mines so rich that they produced blessings of a scope that "cannot fail
to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible
to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. . . . No human counsel
hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things.
They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing
with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy."
Lincoln wanted the country to render thanks "with one heart and one
voice," but in acknowledging that many hearts and voices were
"habitually insensible" to religious feeling, he signaled his grasp of
the elusive nature of what Benjamin Franklin had called America's
"public religion" -- the broad belief in a God who created the world,
who was attentive to history and to prayers, who intervened in the
affairs of humankind through providence, and who would ultimately
reward or punish men for their conduct. This was the "Creator" and the
"Nature's God" of the Declaration of Independence and the God whom
George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spoke of in their
public remarks. In America such talk was (and is) complicated, for the
nation was founded on the principle of religious liberty -- that, at
the federal level, no one's civil or political rights could be affected
by his faith or lack thereof. As Washington said in a letter to the
Hebrew Congregation at Newport, R.I., in 1790, America "gives to
bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." And Jefferson
approvingly wrote of "a wall of separation between Church & State" in
an 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in Connecticut.
Democrats' Victory Is Felt On K Street
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR200611220=
1940.html
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 23, 2006; Page A01
The Democrats' takeover of Congress this month has turned official
Washington upside down.
Labor and environmental representatives, once also-rans in
congressional influence, are meeting frequently with Capitol Hill's
incoming Democratic leaders. Corporations that once boasted about their
Republican ties are busily hiring Democratic lobbyists. And industries
worried about reprisals from the new Democrats-in-charge, especially
the pharmaceutical industry, are sending out woe-is-me memos and hoping
their GOP connections will protect them in the crunch.
Latin Americans Wonder If Democrats Are Traders
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR200611220=
2170_pf.html
Anxiety High Over Stance of Incoming Congress
By Sibylla Brodzinsky and Peter S. Goodman
Washington Post Foreign Service
Thursday, November 23, 2006; A01
MEDELLIN, Colombia -- At the CI Jeans factory, where 3,900 people make
their livings turning bolts of denim into trousers bound for the United
States, the American market -- land of the customer -- appears to be
slipping away.
In September, with a proposed trade deal between Colombia and the
United States uncertain and orders flagging, the factory fired 320
workers. Now, the pact appears to be in peril. Democrats are set to
take control of the U.S. Congress, speaking for a segment of the
American public that is worried about globalization. The incoming
leaders have pledged to redraft the terms of global trade.
Indian Schools Help Students Connect With Their Culture
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR200611220=
1679_pf.html
Tradition, Not Assimilation, A Growing Trend Across U.S.
By Robert Gutsche Jr.
Special to The Washington Post
Thursday, November 23, 2006; A03
MILWAUKEE -- Fifth-grade teacher Amy Tromp lights a match and then the
small pile of sage she holds in a shell. The sage begins to smolder,
its smell stinging the nose.
Her students, sitting in a circle on the floor, try to catch the smoke
and bring it over their bodies to get ready for the school day. They
then share their concerns and stories from the night before. Someone
played a lot of video games. Another tells of his pregnant sister who
might lose her baby.
Royal Tribute At Last for Indian Chief
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR200611220=
2040.html
By Katie Fretland
Associated Press
Thursday, November 23, 2006; Page A34
LONDON, Nov. 22 -- Queen Elizabeth II joined a group of American
Indians on Wednesday to pay tribute to a Mohegan chief who traveled to
England more than two centuries ago to complain directly to the king
about British settlers encroaching on tribal lands.
Three tribesmen in turkey-feather headdresses lit a pipe filled with
sweet grass and sage in a traditional burial ceremony for Mahomet
Weyonomon, a sachem or leader, who died of smallpox in 1736 while
waiting to see King George II. The tribal chief was buried in an
unmarked grave in a south London churchyard.
Paving the Way for Ties With Cuba
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1808.html
By Judy Sarasohn
Thursday, November 23, 2006; Page A37
Perhaps a sign of the imminent post-Castro times, a small but official
congressional delegation will be taking a quick trip to Cuba next month
for a look-see. Helping to round up some interesting folks for the
lawmakers to talk to is Sarah Stephens, a policy activist who has been
trying for years to foster dialogue with the United States' communist
neighbor.
Stephens, who had been working to free up travel to the island,
recently opened the Center for Democracy in the Americas, which will
expand her work to the Southern Hemisphere, particularly Venezuela.
Formerly at the Center for International Policy, Stephens arranges for
informal groups to visit Cuba to talk to a wide range of people.
Go Ahead, I Dare You
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15835131/site/newsweek/
A new study asks why teenagers do stupid and dangerous things. The
answers might surprise you.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Wray Herbert
Special to Newsweek
Updated: 3:44 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2006
Nov. 21, 2006 - In the popular 1955 movie "Rebel Without a Cause,"
moody teenager Jim Stark makes a bad choice. He decides to drive his
'49 Mercury at high speed toward a seaside cliff in a game of
"chicken" with his nemesis, the bully Buzz Gunderson. It's
actually a worse life decision for Buzz, who loses the game and
perishes in the Pacific Ocean.
When Villains Might Be Allies
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15837748/site/newsweek/
The Syrians deny that they're murdering opponents in Lebanon. Does
Washington care?
Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek
Updated: 5:41 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2006
Nov. 21, 2006 - James Bond once had trouble parsing the bad guys from
the good guys, which is to say the folks he ought to kill from the
folks he ought not. The British secret agent's ruminations came in
the very first novel of the series written by Ian Fleming, "Casino
Royale," which is out as a new movie, of course, but which I
haven't seen. The chapter called "The Nature of Evil" is a
killer's contemplation of moral relativism circa 1953.
'Flying While Muslim'
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15856333/site/newsweek/
When six Muslim leaders were pulled off an airplane this week, some
advocacy groups said it was another example of religious and racial
profiling.
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Jessica Bennett and Matthew Philips
Newsweek
Updated: 6:00 p.m. ET Nov. 22, 2006
Nov. 22, 2006 - As a Muslim-American and president of the North
American Imams Federation, Dr. Omar Shahin is no stranger to the
heightened security of a post-9/11 world. On more than one occasion,
the Phoenix, Ariz., resident says he's been picked out of a crowd by
the color of his skin-interrogated, finger printed or detained. So
when Shahin headed to the airport Monday with five other imams for a
flight out of Minneapolis-where the NAIF had met for a
conference-the group did everything they could to avoid suspicion,
according to Shahin. They wore Western clothes, he says. The men spoke
only English. They didn't book their seats together. And when it came
time to conduct their sunset-time prayers, Shahin says, they did so
quietly, and not all together-hoping to avoid any unwanted attention.
A Modest Proposal
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15851854/site/newsweek/
President Bush can help stabilize the entire Middle East by
concentrating on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But he'll need all
the region's players to do it.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Richard Wolffe and Holly Bailey
Newsweek
Updated: 11:58 a.m. ET Nov. 22, 2006
Nov. 22, 2006 - For a region that has come to define his presidency,
the Middle East rarely features on the travel itineraries of George W.
Bush. He has never, for instance, visited Israel as president. Egypt,
Turkey, Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states-all close allies in
the war on terror, as the clich=E9 goes-still represent mostly blank
pages in Bush's travel diary.
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