Could Afghanistan become another Vietnam? Is the United States facing another stalemate on the other side of the world? Premature the questions may b…

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Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

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A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the …

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Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

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Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

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The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

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American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and ofte…

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Aspects of life here civility, courtesy, coziness have always bound Britons to their country . . . They are part of the British myth, along with love…

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