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Rebels Advance

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On March 26, 2011
This is good: Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s forces retreated from this strategic city on Saturday, running for dozens of miles back along the coast in the first significant advance for Libyan rebels since American and European airstrikes began a week ago. The rebel victory was the...

Ragtag

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On March 24, 2011

This leaves me feeling skeptical about the rebels chances: After the uprising, the rebels stumbled as they tried to organize. They did a poor job of defining themselves when Libyans.

Lucinda

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On March 23, 2011
See Loomis on Lucinda Williams.  I saw Williams a couple years ago in Louisville, on the West tour.  It was probably the worst show I've ever paid to see.  I wasn't even able to really grapple with how bad it was until I was driving...
Now this is interesting, from GC at Pileus: President Cleveland faced a pretty hawkish Congress in 1896 due to the perception of an “intolerable” humanitarian disaster taking place in Cuba where the Spanish were repressing revolutionaries (sound familiar?*)[1]. Indeed, Cleveland was told Congress was going...
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