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Juan Cole

Hillary should play her gender card to the hilt

BY ROBIN GERBER | Robin Gerber is senior faculty with the Gallup Organization and author of "Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way" and the forthcoming novel "Eleanor vs. Ike."
December 4, 2007

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Basu: Albright calling? It's just all in a day's work
REKHA BASU • DECEMBER 12, 2007

The Des Moines Register

Emily Perez is dead... 

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Volume 53, Number 9 · May 25, 2006

Feature
Freedom to Write (From: The New York Review of Books)
By Orhan Pamuk

The following was given on April 25 as the inaugural PEN Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Memorial Lecture.

In March 1985 Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter made a trip together to Istanbul. At the time, they were perhaps the two most important names in world theater, but unfortunately, it was not a play or a literary event that brought them to Istanbul, but the ruthless limits being set on freedom of expression in Turkey at that time, and the many writers languishing in prison. In 1980 there was a coup in Turkey, and hundreds of thousands of people were thrown into prison, and as always, it was writers who were persecuted most vigorously. Whenever I've looked through the newspaper archives and the almanacs of that time to remind myself what it was like in those days, I soon come across the image that defines that era for most of us: men sitting in a courtroom, flanked by gendarmes, their heads shaven, frowning as their case proceeds.... There were many writers among them, and Miller and Pinter had come to Istanbul to meet with them and their families, to offer them assistance, and to bring their plight to the attention of the world. Their trip had been arranged by PEN in conjunction with the Helsinki Watch Committee. I went to the airport to meet them, because a friend of mine and I were to be their guides.

Will Iran's OIL Bourse Harm U.S. Petrodollars?
Interview With William Engdahl
Economist/Journalist
By Nathan Diebenow
Associate Editor

FRANKFORT, Germany — F. William Engdahl has eyed Big Oil’s effects on geopolitics for over 30 years and hasn’t looked back.

Since the first oil shock and world grain crisis in the early 1970s, he has covered the GATT Uruguay Round trade talks, EU food policies, the grain cartel, IMF policy, Third World debt issues, hedge funds and the Asia crisis.