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Hugo Chavez: 10 outrageous things he said about the US
Hugo Chavez, whose death was announced Tuesday, will be remembered worldwide as much for what he said as for what he did during his 14-year rule of Venezuela. From the vitriolic to bizarre, here is a list of 10 outrageous comments he made about the “Yankee empire” and its leaders.
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GOP convention winners and losers, from Condoleezza Rice to Clint Eastwood (+video)
It was a chaotic week in Tampa, Fla., as Mitt Romney accepted his party's nomination and hurricane Isaac crashed the party. From the major speeches to some trivial moments, we rate some of the winners and losers to come out of the 2012 GOP convention.
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Thirty ideas from people under 30: The Change Agents
They are explorers and activists, artists and educators, farmers and faith leaders – even mayors. And they have trenchant suggestions on how to improve the world.
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7 gifts for history and geography fans
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In Pictures: Life before Facebook
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Bestselling books the week of 10/21/10, according to IndieBound*
What's selling best in independent bookstores across America.
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Condoleezza Rice admits mistakes, but not in memoir
Condoleezza Rice, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State in the Bush administration, says 'mistakes' were made. But her new book, 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People,' covers her life prior to Sept. 11, 2001.
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Condoleezza Rice hasn't missed her old job while writing a memoir
Condoleezza Rice doesn't miss her former job of US Secretary of State. Rice also said current Secretary Hillary Clinton has reached out to her.
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Extraordinary, Ordinary People
Condoleezza Rice’s memoir is largely a loving tribute to the parents who were "anxious.... perhaps a little too anxious" to give her a head start in life.
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19th Amendment: How far have women in politics come since 1920?
19th Amendment experts suggest that women are finally gaining a measure of the political leverage that the 19th Amendment promised when it gave women the right to vote 90 years ago.
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WikiLeaks Q&A with Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the Pentagon Papers
Daniel Ellsberg, the man behind the most significant leak in Pentagon history – the 1971 Pentagon Papers – spoke to the Monitor about how important the WikiLeaks documents are and whether WikiLeaks is the Afghanistan war's Pentagon Papers.
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Hans Blix says US and Britain relied on flawed information in buildup to Iraq war
Hans Blix is the former UN weapons inspector who testified Tuesday before the British board of inquiry looking into the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice make soulful music together
Aretha Franklin and Condoleezza Rice got together to play a song or two for charity.
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Top Picks: 'Through a Dog's Eyes,' 'Climate Refugees,' small donations, and more recommendations
PBS documentary about service dogs on DVD, book about climate displacement, a donation that changes the world, and more top picks.
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Queen Elizabeth II to address UN General Assembly, visit ground zero
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will be in New York on Tuesday. The British monarch is set to address the UN for the second time in her 57-year reign.
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Wimbledon: Venus Williams looking forward to tournament
Wimbledon: Venus Williams says she looks forward to Wimbledon next week. Venus Williams also has a book coming out.
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MVP of Obama's security team: Hillary 'the hammer' Rodham Clinton
Even the right wing applauds Secretary of State Clinton's performance.
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In Pictures: Graduation 2010
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Muslim women find an ally for more rights: the Koran
Courageous figures like Indonesia's Siti Musdah Mulia are showing Muslim women how to break out of bondage by using the Koran.
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Gallery: Notable women in US politics
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Iran nuclear program: On sanctions, Congress ahead of Obama
The House and Senate are progressing with bipartisan legislation to impose sanctions in response to the Iran nuclear program. But President Obama faces difficulties in the UN Security Council.
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Condoleezza Rice admits some regrets over Iraq war
Condoleezza Rice on Friday said the US government failed to understand how "broken Iraq was as a society."
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Liz Cheney: Taking flak from the right as well as the left
Dick Cheney's daughter Liz has become a political lightning rod. Now she's going after Justice Department lawyers who represented terrorist suspects. Not all conservatives are happy with that.
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Mohamed ElBaradei looks to US to fix nuclear system 'in tatters'
As head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Mohamed ElBaradei says the world has not done well in preventing nuclear proliferation. But ElBaradei has high hopes for the Obama administration.
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Equatorial Guinea tests Obama vow to hold African leaders accountable
President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo – who today pardoned British mercenary Simon Mann – is widely seen as one of Africa's most corrupt leaders. But will oil interests prevent a shift in US policy?
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Who is Simon Mann?
The British mercenary Simon Mann was freed from jail in Equatorial Guinea today after having been sentenced to 34 years for trying to overthrow the country's government. He served less than two years.
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NFL's Europe expansion? Maybe in 10 years. Maybe never.
In most countries, 'football' means kicking that round thing around. But it would be fun for the 'Patriots' to show Brits what a former colony can do.
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Mubarak meets Obama to patch up US-Egypt relationship
The Egyptian president hopes Obama will back away from Bush's push for reform, which caused a rift between the two nations.
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Palin bashing is women bashing
Sexism in the media is real. Here's what we can do about it.
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US weighs options to free journalists in North Korea
A tougher stance toward Pyongyang may complicate efforts to negotiate the release of the two women, who were sentenced Monday to 12 years of hard labor.
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