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My brother Nicholas Spyridon Kass has made foreign policy his life’s work, knowing that the world is a dangerous place and many out there hate us, and want us dead, or as their slaves. Or perhaps they dream of using us as their jesters, to kneel near their feast tables, so they can clean the grease from their fingers on our hair. Part of that work involved knowing and appreciating how American elected officials think about the world, and how they learn about the dangers for our county, how they process the information. Do they try to think independently? Or...

BALTIMORE, April 6 (UPI) -- Protection of the Antarctic region against increased tourism is the goal of a proposal to the Antarctic Treaty, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. "Strengthening environmental regulation is especially as important as tourism to the Antarctica increases," Clinton said Monday during the 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting in Baltimore. "The United States is concerned about the safety of the tourists and the suitability of the ships that make the journey south. " The U.S. resolution would place limits on landings from ships with large numbers of tourists, as well as list new requirements for...

June 16 (UPI) -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Americans need a ``privacy bill of rights'' in an age of increased surveillance and new technologies, and she will introduce legislation this year to guard against breaches of private consumer information. Clinton, a New York Democrat who is considering a run for the presidency in 2008, said her legislation would make it easier for consumers to sue health-care, financial services and other companies that misuse consumer data, and would establish a ``privacy czar'' at the White House to improve federal policies. ``At all levels, the privacy protections for ordinary citizens are...

Sen. Hillary Clinton visited Jerusalem's Western Wall on Monday, and slipped a personal note between the stones, before heading to a memorial service for assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Children threw candy at the New York Democrat, while she posed with women celebrating their sons' Bar Mitzvahs, a Jewish rite of passage, at the Western Wall. A blue shawl draped around her shoulders, Clinton spent a few solitary moments before the massive structure, while her male security detail stood on the sidelines, barred from the exclusively women's portion of the holy site. Clinton did not reveal the content of the...

<p>PASSENGERS on an American Airlines flight to San Diego that was delayed for over an hour would have been dismayed to learn the real cause of the holdup.</p> <p>The flight out of JFK the other night sat on the tarmac without explanation until an hour and a half after the scheduled departure time.</p>