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Foreign policy skills in question for Rudy

with Hoover Institutionvia Newsday
Thursday, November 16, 2006

For a would-be president like Rudolph Giuliani, it seemed like the perfect chance to get some of the hands-on foreign policy experience he lacks -- a spot on a blue-ribbon panel advising the White House on Iraq...

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Milton Friedman, a Leading Economist, Dies at 94

via New York Times
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Milton Friedman, the grandmaster of conservative economic theory in the postwar era and a prime force in the movement of nations toward lesser government and greater reliance on free markets and individual responsibility, died today...

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Milton Friedman, free market economist, dies at age 94

via Associated Press
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday at age 94...

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The smugness of the war's opponents

with Niall Fergusonvia townhall.com
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

In this week's New York Times Book Review, a historian reviewing a major new work of 20th-century history, Oxford and Harvard Professor Niall Ferguson's "The War of the World," notes that "Ferguson argues that the Western powers should have gone to war in 1938, which would most likely have avoided much of the horror of World War II..."

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Four Georgetown Professors Receive Fulbright Scholar Awards

with Milton Friedmanvia Media Newswire
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

The United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board recently announced that Georgetown University faculty members Carrie Menkel-Meadow, Jeffrey Peck, Joanne Rappaport and Veronica Salles-Reese have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants to lecture and conduct research overseas for the 2006-2007 academic year...

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President gives Hoover medal at White House

with Hoover Institution, John Raisianvia Stanford Daily
Tuesday, November 14, 2006

President George W. Bush awarded the National Humanities Medal, the country’s highest humanities award, to the Hoover Institution in an Oval Office ceremony Thursday...

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Work shouldn't be hard to find for Rumsfeld

with Hoover Institutionvia Chicago Tribune
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Departing U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld may be leaving behind a legacy of discord and failure at the Pentagon and in Iraq...

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Century of Rubble

with Niall Fergusonvia New York Times Book Review
Sunday, November 12, 2006

Published on the eve of the 20th century, H. G. Wells’s ‘The War of the Worlds’ (1898) is much more than just a seminal work of science fiction...

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Historian Starr, Hoover Institution honored

with Hoover Institution, John Raisianvia San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, November 11, 2006

San Franciscan Kevin Starr and the Hoover Institution at Stanford were among those honored for their contributions to the humanities this week when President Bush awarded them the National Humanities Medal in a ceremony at the Oval Office...

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To remember Politkovskaya

by Arnold Beichmanvia Washington Times
Friday, November 10, 2006

The death of Anna Politkovskaya must not be forgotten by democratic public opinion...

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