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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Tarnishing the Iron Lady of Africa
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf may be the best president Liberia has ever had. But now even she faces criticism for failing to crack down on corruption.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mikey Weinstein’s Crusade
Meet the man who's trying to purge evangelical Christianity from the Pentagon.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 President Spandex?
The man who once mooned an auditorium of students, dressed up as a superhero to teach civics lessons, and cleaned up Bogotá while he was at it just might become Colombia's next president.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Can South Africa’s Bungling Ex-President Save Darfur?
Former South African President Thabo Mbeki tries to rewrite the history of his diplomatic career.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Keynes: The Return of the Master
Keynesian economics made a brilliant comeback in 2009. It's little wonder why.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Al Qaeda’s Dissident
How the prison writings of Sayyid Imam al-Sharif, one of al Qaeda's founders now labeled a turn coat, are doing more to expose the terrorist group's hypocrisy than anyone else.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 My Nights With Hamid
The world is hounding the Afghan president to crack down on corruption and kick out entrenched warlords. I don't think he's going to do it, and I should know: I’m the man who wrote his autobiography.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Other Vaclav
How the Czech president became Europe's public enemy number one.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Sarkozy’s Better Half
If the French president has a hope of getting things done at the G-20, it's because of his philosophic finance minister, Christine Lagarde.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Was Irving Kristol a Neoconservative?
The "godfather" of neoconservatism started a movement that moved away from him.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Obama’s Eminence Grise
For decades, George Mitchell has worked, quietly and diligently, on Washington's most intractable political problems. This week, he shows his cards on Middle East peace.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Fogh of War
Is the new secretary-general of NATO a slippery opportunist or just a good negotiator?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Real Winner of Afghanistan’s Election
Meet Mohammad Qasim Fahim, the unsavory Tajik warlord whose grip on Afghanistan just got a whole lot tighter.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Japan’s New Shadow Shogun
A mercurial longtime powerbroker, now disgraced, is behind the rise of Japan's opposition party.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Ain’t No Sunshine
Kim Dae-jung may have been a democrat, but the late South Korean president was no saint. His true legacy will be one of utter failure in dealing with his northern neighbor.
