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Obama On Letterman: 'Palin Would Be The Lipstick' Presidential Hopeful Says Media Took His Words And Ran; Defends Bush Policies On Afghanistan, AIDS In Africa NEW YORK (CBS) ― Presidential hopeful Barack Obama appeared on the "Late Show with David Letterman" in New York on Wednesday after a day of heated debate by media and political pundits over comments some took as a slam against Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Obama spent much of his visit talking about Palin and clarifying his earlier comments. "This is sort of silly season in politics, not that there's a non-silly season, but it...

THE name Willy Brandt probably doesn’t mean a lot to people of my generation, but it should. As the author of North-South - a Programme for Survival published in 1980, he completely redefined the debate on international relations between the rich and poor nations of the world. Revisiting the Brandt Report in the current climate of international uncertainty is fascinating. A world which enters 2004 weighing up the relative threats of rogue nations and the remnants of the "axis of evil" is a world which needs a new order. The systematic undermining of the UN by the only remaining superpower...