Socio-Politics
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Embassies are burning; an ambassador is dead; elite Marine units are being deployed to protect envoys; tear gas canisters are falling like rain droplets on belligerent and vociferous mobs; chants of “Obama, Obama—we are all Osama” pierce an already raucous Friday afternoon; and yet, this eerily seems a beginning. I welcome you to earth—where the
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As I lay in bed Wednesday morning, eyes still a bit sluggish, I grabbed the Blackberry that lay next to me. Half-consciously opening my inbox, I was floored and fully awoken by what stared back at me: The subject line of a daily brief from Foreign Policy Magazine read: “U.S. ambassador killed in Libya.” I
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