ATHENS OLYMPICS
How we see the Olympics is not the same as the way the rest of the world sees it -- or in some cases doesn't see it. Here are our...
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U.S. pressed to remove Cuba from terrorist-states list
A group of 16 policy organizations and individuals with an interest in improving U.S.-Cuba relations has questioned whether the island nation belongs on the State Department's list of terrorist states...
RUSSIA BALKS AT NEW PACT ON MISSILES
President Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed two security agreements Sunday with great fanfare, but they made little progress on the most pressing issue before them, Clinton's desire for...
PERU LEADER FIGHTS TO KEEP POWER
In a shantytown on the edge of Lima, President Alberto Fujimori is an omnipresent patriarch whose political "good works" are scattered throughout this dusty hillside like bits of gold. In...
ALBERTO FUJIMORI
When Alberto Fujimori was elected president of Peru in 1990, a 10-year war against Maoist guerrillas and sky-high inflation had made a mess out of the country. Fear prevailed across...
A MESSAGE ON COMPASSION
One of the world's best-known proponents of non-violence took center stage in Chicago on Saturday, telling parents and teachers that it is not enough to teach compassion and tolerance--they must...
BLAIR UNVEILS BOLD INTERVENTION DOCTRINE
Setting forth a new foreign policy framework for a post-Cold War world, British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday unveiled a bold international doctrine to justify Western military intervention against...
CHINESE LEADER AVOIDS POLITICS
Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji bantered over a bull and talked about farming on the first afternoon of a historic two-day visit to Chicago, putting aside for the moment the sobering...
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
A little more than a year ago, Mikhail Gorbachev raised eyebrows when he appeared with his granddaughter in a Pizza Hut commercial filmed near Red Square. The former Soviet president,...
GORBACHEV WARNS U.S. TO AVOID `SUPERIORITY’
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, told a packed auditorium at Benedictine University in Lisle on Thursday night that the United States would be making an error...