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The New York Post speculates on speculation regarding Tony Blair.
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Today and polls
If, when the people, being furnished with adequate information, held its deliberations, the citizens had no communication one with another, the grand total of the small differences would always give the general will, and the decision would always be good. But when factions arise … it may then be said that there are no longer…
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Presidential obits
In his last weekly radio address of 2006, George W. Bush paid this tribute to Gerald Ford: He always put the needs of his country before his own, and did what he thought was right, even when those decisions were unpopular. Only years later would Americans come to fully appreciate the foresight and wisdom of…
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Death of a dictator
“Those who had prepared themselves for the murder bared each of them his dagger, and Caesar, hemmed in on all sides, whichever way he turned confronting blows of weapons aimed at his face and eyes, driven hither and thither like a wild beast, was entangled in the hands of all … although Caesar defended himself…