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PublishedAugust 5, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Al Qaida in Iraq scores big with jailbreaks
Jailbreaks are common in Iraq, but the brazen assaults on the prisons at Abu Ghraib and Taji recently are in a class by themselves. The attacks freed perhaps as many as 800 militants, who are now sought by Interpol as a “major threat” to global security.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: The truth hurts Venezuela’s new president
Facing the Senate Foreign Relations Committee recently, Samantha Power, President Barack Obama’s nominee for ambassador to the United Nations, surely didn’t expect to stir up the proverbial hornet’s nest.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2013
OUR OPINION: Clean air rules help Mainers to breathe easier
The height of the tourist season is an odd time to get into a big fight over relaxing Maine’s clean air standards, but the LePage administration has picked this time to exempt Maine industry from federal air-pollution standards.
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PublishedAugust 5, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Outdated raisin law puts farmer in court
Rogue raisin farmer Marvin Horne owes the U.S. government hundreds of dollars in unpaid fines and millions of pounds of raisins.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Backing gun control bad for Colo. careers
Colorado is the site of two of the most horrific gun massacres in recent history -- Columbine High School in 1999 and an Aurora movie theater last summer. It's also where two state senators face recall elections next month because they dared support a sensible package of gun-control measures that could make future massacres less likely.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Amicable split reasonable goal for Mideast
Perhaps the most promising thing that can be said about anticipated Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations is that we don't know much about them.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2013
OUR OPINION: Manning’s judge draws line against overreaction
A counterterrorism policy should be guided by thoughtful realism, not by fear. Too often, that's not the case.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Suspend aid to Egypt now
When Egyptian police opened fire on protesters in Cairo over the weekend, they ended not only scores of lives but also any chance of a peaceful resolution to Egypt's burgeoning civil war. They also further exposed the Obama administration's hypocritical policy of maintaining aid to the regime, despite U.S. law requiring a suspension.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2013
VIEW FROM AWAY: Too few rules govern too much data gathering
The director of national intelligence announced on July 19 that a court had renewed one of the government's most controversial surveillance programs -- the collection of a vast database of so-called metadata from Americans' phone calls.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2013
Student loan billis a good start
Students who borrow to pay for college got some good news last week when a bipartisan group of senators, including Maine independent Angus King, passed a bill that will cut the interest rate on student loans nearly in half.
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