When President Asif Ali Zardari’s phone rang at 1.15 a.m. on Monday, it was President Barack Obama on the line, with news that a U.S.
The bin Laden Raid: Pakistan Feels the Heat of U.S. Mistrust
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Inside the Obama bin Laden Strike: How America Got Its Man
Osama bin Laden’s final night began with a group of four helicopters slicing through the night skies over Pakistan, making their way toward Islamabad from a U.S. base in northern Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden: Dead Or Alive?
The last time the world heard from Osama bin Laden, there was reason to believe his end was near. In a videotape released in December, bin Laden looked sallow; his speech was slow, and his left arm immobile.
Gaddafi Survives a NATO Air Strike, as Fighting Intensifies
Six weeks after NATO bombs began pounding Libya, Muammar Gaddafi’s youngest son, Seif al-Arab, 29, and three of the Libyan leader’s grandchildren were killed in an air strike near Gaddafi’s house late Saturday, government officials said.
Iraq: Why the U.S. Must Protect Iranians in Camp Ashraf
In the early hours of Friday, April 8, while Washington and the media focused on a possible government shutdown, the Iraqi army assaulted a camp of Iranian civilians, called Camp Ashraf, murdering at least 28 residents and wounding hundreds more.
Will France Americanize Its Legal System?
France’s investigating magistrates have been a central pillar of the country’s Napoleonic justice system for over 200 years. Acting as independent, neutral investigators into crimes, they collect evidence that is then used by justice officials to either try or dismiss a case.
Four-Day School Weeks
The kids in Caldwell Parish will be ditching a lot of school this year. Every Monday, to be precise–and they’re doing so with the principal’s permission
Public Schools: Humanities in High School
The normal high school curriculum is a daily kaleidoscope of unrelated courses: a class in English, perhaps followed by history, civics and then the arts, each session unrelated to the other. Emulating liberal arts colleges and the better prep schools, some public high schools are now offering broad-scale courses in humanities that seek to relate these disciplines, and to show their relevance to the kind of decisions students must make in their own lives.A pacesetter in the field is the state of New York, where 100 high schools have developed experimental humanities courses, using a rough guideline prepared by state education officials
Nepal’s Fragile Peace: Will the War’s Missing Persons Ever Be Found?
While visiting home during a holiday in 2002, Rajendra Tharu awoke in his parent’s house to find himself surrounded by childhood classmates. But they had not come to welcome him back.
Why the 9/11 Conspiracy Theories Won’t Go Away
Take a look, if you can stand it, at video footage of the World Trade Center collapsing.