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1. Global warming claims all hot air, says speaker at OU2. OU student charged with raping 17-year-old3. For most, the journey to Nine Fest seemed worth it4. Police chief: City can’t stop parties before they start5. Is another oil and gas land-rush starting in Athens?6. Parties spun by OU alums have bootie-shakers raving7. High St. student renters take on big local landlord8. Tanning parlor fights to get back into uptown Athens storefront9. Oak and Mill fests mellow down easy10. City Council acts to ban ‘fracking’ in water supply area11. Landowners’ group renews leasing pitch12. Wal-Mart asks judge to grant store win in shoplifter’s lawsuit13. Electric blue skies, May warmth frame music fest14. OU and city officials urge better fest behavior15. Pills defeated relative when no other drugs could do it16. David Alan Jones17. Local developers hoping to revive struggling hotel18. Hall of Fame baseball coach calls it a day at OU19. Festering fests; down, down deep; and the Golden Rule20. Nine Festers enjoy the sun and music, without the mud
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Wednesday, May 16,2012
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Getting included on bin Laden’s ‘list’ is a signal honor
I wanted you to be the first to know. It has just been
revealed by the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Military Academy in
the United States that I am on a very short list of journalists (eight in
Western countries and seven others in India, Pakistan and Arab countries) to
whom Osama bin Laden wanted to send "special media material" on the 10th
anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. To what do I owe this
honor?
Wednesday, April 18,2012
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The sooner we admit Afghan war can’t be won, the better
In the midst of the
Taliban attacks in central Kabul on Sunday, a journalist called the British
embassy for a comment. "I really don't know why they are doing this," said the
exasperated diplomat who answered the phone. "We'll be out of here in two
years' time. All they have to do is wait."
Wednesday, April 4,2012
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It pays to keep track of global nuclear disarmament
After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police
bullets last Thursday, people who had known him talked about "a polite and
courteous boy" who liked "cars, bikes, sports and girls."
Wednesday, March 28,2012
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The symmetry of slaughter
After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police
bullets last Thursday, people who had known him talked about "a polite and
courteous boy" who liked "cars, bikes, sports and girls." His friends had
trouble believing that he had murdered seven people, including three children,
in a 10-day killing spree in the city of Toulouse, and none of them believed
his claim to be a member of al-Qaeda.
Wednesday, March 21,2012
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The survival of global civilization: The limited options
Reporter: "What do you think of Western civilization, Mr Gandhi?" Mohandas Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea."
Sunday, March 4,2012
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Is Putin scoring Pyhrric victory in Russian elections?
Vladimir Putin is going to win the presidential
election in Russia on March 4. In theory, that gives him six more years in
power, and the right to run for a further six-year term after that. (He got
around the constitutional ban on more than two consecutive terms as president
by spending the past four years as prime minister.) But it's very unlikely that
Putin will be ruling Russia 12 years from now.
Wednesday, February 1,2012
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Syria crisis has no easy answers or resolution
"The Security Council cannot go about imposing
solutions in crisis situations in various countries of the world," said Vitaly
Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, as the U.N. began
discussing what to do about the Syrian crisis last Friday.
Wednesday, December 14,2011
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With the Euro crisis, everyone will get socked, guilty or not
One senior European politician said angrily that
British Prime Minister David Cameron was "like a man who comes to a
wife-swapping party without his wife," and there was some truth in that.
Britain does not even use the euro currency, shared by 17 of the 27 EU members,
but Cameron insisted on being part of the discussion in Brussels about how to
save it.
Sunday, December 11,2011
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What’s fundamentalist today was standard 500 years ago
One should not mock the sexual obsessions of Islamic
fundamentalists; it's like shooting fish in a barrel. When a senior academic in
Saudi Arabia, professor Kamal Subhi, declares in a report for the Shura
Council, the kingdom's legislative assembly, that allowing women to drive would
spell the end of virginity in the kingdom, it doesn't really require further
comment. But let's offer a few comments anyway.
Wednesday, November 30,2011
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Progress report: The Arab autumn followup to Arab spring
The "Arab Spring" was
fast and dramatic: non-violent revolutions in the streets removed dictators in
Tunisia and Egypt in a matter of weeks, and similar revolutions got underway in
Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen.
