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Slate Magazine - Foreigners - Sep 3, 2008
And now, ladies and gentlemen, before the convention season comes to a close, let us pause a moment and suspend our partisan impulses. It is time to sing the praises of 44-year-old women. Whether you're a Republican or …
Slate Magazine - Sep 2, 2008
These days, the news from Georgia is all bombing campaigns and Russian occupation, but for an odd and magical week in the summer of 2006, I was part of Mikheil Saakashvili's great and tragic fantasy of an independent …
Slate Magazine - Aug 25, 2008
The Democratic presidential debate of April 27, 2007, when Sen. Joe Biden was still a declared candidate, included a heated discussion of foreign affairs. Biden pointed to the two most dovish members of the group, Rep …
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Which breakaway state will be the next South Ossetia?Slate Magazine - Aug 21, 2008 Late one Saturday night last month, I found myself in a Greenland bar conversing with an extremely drunken member of the Royal Danish Navy. When he found out I was American, he lurched over and shared his belief that … |
Slate Magazine - Foreigners - Aug 20, 2008
Through the first days of the crisis in the Caucasus, all eyes have been on the suffering of the Georgians and barbarism of the Russians. Both are indisputable. But now it is also time to recognize that the events of …
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What is Russia afraid of?Slate Magazine - Aug 18, 2008 Forty years ago this week, on the night of Aug. 20 and early morning of Aug. 21, 1968, thousands of tanks and hundreds of thousands of soldiers rolled into Czechoslovakia. The goal of the invasion was straightforward … |
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Why Americans swoon for the former Soviet Republic of Georgia.Slate Magazine - Aug 15, 2008 Five minutes into a pro-Georgia rally in front of the United Nations earlier this week, Ceil Brody, an American co-owner of a Georgian restaurant in Watchung, N.J., began telling me about what makes Georgia so … |
Slate Magazine - Aug 11, 2008
Cymbals clashed; a giant scroll unfurled. There were fireworks, kites, ancient soldiers marching in formation, modern dancers bending their bodies into impossible shapes, astronauts, puppets, little children, multiple …
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Russia invades Georgia. How did it come to this?Slate Magazine - Aug 8, 2008 For the best possible illustration of why Islamic terrorism may one day be considered the least of our problems, look no further than the BBC's split-screen coverage of Friday's Olympics opening ceremony. On one side … |
Slate Magazine - Foreigners - Aug 4, 2008
Although more than three decades have now passed since the winter of 1974, when unbound, hand-typed, samizdat manuscripts of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago first began circulating around what used to be the …