Cairo, January 13, 2011 – Dear Dienstbier: I am saddened that I cannot tell you this in person. We had talked prior to my leaving…
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In Transit, December 31, 2010 – Some have shown courage and resolve. Some have just piddled about. Others are moving very distinctly backwards. In Germany…
Cairo, Egypt, December 7, 2010 – It has been 2 ½ months since my last column. I took many notes – in Zimbabwe, South Africa,…
Krynica/Warsaw, Poland Sept 12, 2010 – A day after the 9th Anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks, I sit with a former ranking member…
The Front Lines, Baku and Budapest, August 15, 2010 – A quiet area of Nagorno-Karabakh belies the tension between Armenia and Azerbaijan. In Baku, an…
Madrid, July 26, 2010 – I met each of them under different circumstances. Each of them replaced a gentleman who had risen quickly, and sometimes…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 13 (UPI) — They just won’t go away. Twenty years after the fall of communism, much Central Europe’s economy, politics…
Prague, Czech Republic, May 23, 2010 – The files in his office are piled high, strewn about in a professorial but orderly way. On his…
Columbus, Ohio, May 3, 2010 — Super Saver won the 136th Kentucky Derby on Saturday. The three year old was not the odds on…
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, March 21 (UPI) — “You must continue to write about corruption,” the young man says to me in the tram, holding…