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Editors' preface: A noted historian of the Middle East has said the following about the legacy of scholars who devoted their careers to the study of the region: The giants of the recent past tend to be largely forgotten as soon as they are dead if not before, especially if what they have written isn't what is now considered fashionable or central … They are criticized when they are in error, but their achievements are forgotten.[1] While this is largely true in the English-speaking countries, it is not true in France, where a few French "giants" of Islamic and Arab...

PHILADELPHIA -- A onetime employee of a Quaker organization has charged in a lawsuit that the group harassed and shunned her after learning she allegedly had an affair with former President Clinton. In addition, Myra Belle "Sally" Miller alleges that the West Chester Meeting of Friends, in West Chester, suggested she date a 91-year-old Quaker board member and placed photos of "elderly and scantily-clad men" on her desk, handed her "unsolicited religious literature," and implied she was a "fallen woman." Her suit, filed Thursday in federal court in Philadelphia against the Quaker organization and its school, also claims that the...

[World News]: London, Oct 30: He might have recovered from his recent quadruple heart bypass surgery, but former President Bill Clinton's illness is more than what meets the eye. According to the National Enquirer, he may have suffered permanent brain damage due to the surgery. He has also been battling a deadly blood infection. Insiders say that he is weak and suffering memory lapses. Doctors have given him blood thinners to prevent blood clots, antibiotics to treat his deadly infection and tranquilizers to calm his anxiety, say friends. "Recovering from heart surgery has been a far more painful and miserable...

Clintons Shutting Up, Quietly Undermining Kerry Written by Chris Long Tuesday, September 28, 2004 http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=10015 The problem with a Kerry presidency for the Clintons is the possibility that Kerry may preside over a strengthening economy not of his making and spark international chaos by giving terrorist groups a breather by waffling in what is, in reality, World War III. Either way, the Clintons lose. A good economy coupled with a Kerry presidency gets him re-elected; chumming with the French and Germans and undermining the War on Terror gets Kerry un-elected, replaced by Republican Colin Powell who now has foreign policy...

Tuning into BBC Radio Ulster on Thursday morning, I experienced what can only be described as a 'Troubles' flashback. The newsreader announced shortly after 7am that Bill Clinton would be holding talks in Belfast later that day with the main political parties in a bid to boost the peace process. Clinton had travelled north following a triumphant visit to Dublin which included pressing the flesh with the Taoiseach and imploring northern politicians to reach a lasting settlement. His wife, Hillary, meanwhile, would be chairing a discussion between women from across the community before addressing an audience at the University...

Num. Country Government 1. Albania Presidential-parliamentary democracy 2. Andorra Parliamentary democracy 3. Argentina Presidential-parliamentary democracy (federal) 4. Armenia Presidential-parliamentary democracy 5. Australia Parliamentary democracy (federal) 6. Austria Parliamentary democracy (federal) 7. Bahamas Parliamentary democracy 8. Bangladesh Parliamentary democracy 9. Barbados Parliamentary democracy 10. Belgium Parliamentary democracy (federal) 11. Belize Parliamentary democracy 12. Benin Presidential-parliamentary democracy 13. Bolivia Presidential-parliamentary democracy 14. Botswana Parliamentary democracy and traditional chiefs 15. Brazil Presidential-parliamentary democracy (federal) 16. Bulgaria Parliamentary democracy 17. Canada Parliamentary democracy (federal) 18. Cape Verde Presidential-parliamentary democracy 19. Central African Republic Presidential-parliamentary democracy 20. Chile Presidential-parliamentary democracy 21. Colombia Presidential-parliamentary democracy...

Here is a free download of "Mekong John": The Kerry Legacy Comedy set to music. Click Here to Play "Mekong John" Lyrics: Cruisin' down the Mekong Delta, Pilot in a COIN(Counter Insurgency) Swift boat I'll create a second coming of JFK, I'm gonna make my future float Never really wanted to go to Vietnam, tried to get deferred to stay in Paris After all, I'm a Yaley Grad, a service job is way below my status I have a dream I gotta scheme gonna take charge I am the man I gotta a plan yes I live large Playin the...

With two presidents bearing the name, the Bushes are now the most prominent family in American politics. Peter Schweizer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. Rochelle Schweizer is a writer and media consultant. For more than a century the Bushes have been at or near the center of America’s public life—as friends of presidents, captains of industry, capitalists, senators, congressmen, ambassadors, governors, federal judges, and two American presidents. Although the Bushes lack the flamboyance of the Roosevelts or the enormous wealth of the Kennedys, they have surpassed those two great dynasties. There can be little question that the...

LEXA, Ark. (AP) - Until this month, Maudie Celia Hopkins was best known for her fried peach pies and applesauce cakes. Then relatives disclosed that the 89-year-old woman had been married 70 years ago to a veteran of the Civil War, making her a living link to history and triggering a stream of calls from journalists, historians and old friends wanting to know more about her three-year, Depression-era marriage to William M. Cantrell. ``Americans are thirsty for information about the Civil War, they cannot get enough of it,'' said Terry Winschel, a historian at the Vicksburg National Military Park in...

MIDI - ONLY TIME Who was using our White House as his whore house...he is slime And who had his aides defending...never ending...he is slime He cannot change his legacy, despite the endless spin He'll always be quite a sociopath...just where do we begin Who is still in denial...fixed a trial...he is slime And who was under oath lying, truth defying...he is slime He cannot change his legacy, despite the endless spin He'll always be quite a sociopath...just where do we begin Who had been defense harming...Chinese arming...he is slime And who ignored Muslim terror, fatal error...he is slime...

Bill Clinton loses his temper with David Dimbleby during a BBC television interview to be broadcast this week when he is repeatedly quizzed about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. The former American president, famed for his amiable disposition, becomes visibly angry and rattled, particularly when Dimbleby asks him whether his publicly declared contrition over the affair is genuine. His outrage at the line of questioning during the 50-minute interview, to be broadcast on Panorama on Tuesday night, lasts several minutes. It is the first time that the former President has been seen to lose his temper publicly over the issue...

He touched so many lives As we received the news this week of former President Ronald Reagan’s death, I am reminded of the man and president he was and the impact he had on so many, including my then-seven year old son. I remember when he campaigned for presidency. I was a junior in high school. I was upset, since I was not yet 18, I would not be eligible to vote for him. He would, of course, become our 40th president even without my vote. I recall hearing my parents speak about his career as a movie and television...

WHAT THEY SAID: In honor of president Reagan's funeral, here's a useful corrective to the notion that his legacy was always celebrated. Today, almost everyone concedes his historical significance. But that wasn't what was said at the time. Here's a smattering of commentary from the 1980s. "A few years from now, I believe, Reaganism will seem a weird and improbable memory, a strange interlude of national hallucination, rather as the McCarthyism of the early 1950s and the youth rebellion of the late 1960s appear to us today." - Arthur "Always Wrong" Schlesinger, Washington Post, May 1, 1988. "I wonder how...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- He slashed taxes, championed the end of big government, stared down striking air traffic controllers and deregulated American industry. He launched the conservative revolution and revitalized the Republican Party. And with a genial and sunny self-confidence, he revived American optimism and restored the power of the presidency.

Campaigns seize on Reagan's legacy - Anne E. Kornblut, Globe Staff, 6/9/2004WASHINGTON -- After three days of suspended political activity, the Bush campaign began openly incorporating Ronald Reagan's death into its reelection message yesterday, revamping its website to give Reagan a dominant role and distributing official campaign letters that invoke the former president. Since Reagan's death Saturday, Bush has repeatedly offered glowing praise of the 40th president in ways that echo his own reelection efforts, but were not overtly political. Yesterday, his campaign took the refrain into the political realm. Bush officials sent an e-mail inviting supporters to add to...

The Left may belittle him, but his gift to the Right was the spirit of optimism AND THEN there were two. The death of Ronald Reagan means that of the three great heroes who brought an end to the Cold War only Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II remain. Let us cherish them both while we can. But let us also pay tribute to President Reagan’s achievements before revisonists and cynics start their inevitable work of deconstruction and belittling. On this page yesterday William Rees-Mogg wrote of the President he knew personally. I can only record the impressions of...

PLEASE, FREEP this poll to ensure Australia acknowledges Ronald Reagans magnificent contribution to our world.

Los Angeles Daily News Goodbye, Gipper Ronald Reagan lived and gave life to the American dream It seems only fitting that Ronald Reagan would have died on Saturday, the eve of the 60th anniversary of D-Day. For if D-Day marked the beginning of the end of World War II and Nazi Germany, Reagan marked the beginning of the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Empire. When Reagan came into office in 1981, federal bureaucrats, the White House press corps and the international intelligentsia all scoffed at his tough approach to the Soviet Union. When Reagan predicted -- nearly...

In Memory of President Ronald Reagan. For all the good that you have done for this country, for all the love, and dedication, for your unwavering pursuit of Freedom and Democracy, for your constant and relentless attack of communism and liberalism, for believing in the American spirit and the American people, for inspiring us to dream and hope for a better tomorrow, and for your measureless love of God, President Reagan we would like to humbly thank you from the bottom of our hearts. We will always remember your legacy, your courage, and your vision! We will always remember your...

 National NFRA: Beware - The Reagan Legacy Thieves "He will always be great to me. I will know him for his words and his actions on behalf of his nation. That he had been an actor or that he suffered with Alzheimer's were not the things that made him the great man he became. The fact that he was a loving husband or that he had a positive outlook were qualities that accentuated but did not make him great. Beware; you will be bombarded with half-truths and lies. Beware; you will be encouraged to accept something that is less...