The Economics of Sanctions on Iraq, by David Henderson

Source: EconLog

However, the devastation of Iraq in the service of limiting proliferation did not begin with the war in 2003. For the previous 13 years, that country had suffered under economic sanctions, visited upon it by bo ...
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Agenda: Warehouse; Aiden Grimshaw; Revenge; Gray and Turner; Shrimpy's

Source: The Independent

Fashion: Pencil in the celebrations Kill two trends with one skirt in this lemon-yellow broderie number (pictured above) from Warehouse. You'll score points for your on-trend pastels and your ultra-feminine laciness, while also fitting in a treat ...
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Reader Comments on the Girl Who Symbolizes...Resilience!

Source: The New York Times

May 26, 2012, 7:05 pm By NICHOLAS KRISTOF The back story to my Sunday column is that I’ve always been interested in Memuna, because she’s a wonderful example of how an individual story and photos can galvanize the political will to end atrocities. (I’ve ...
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Download a City Rain vs. Michael Jackson mashup (playing tonight at The Fire at the Sundrop Music & Arts Festival)

Source: The Key

City Rain have taken on Michael Jackson in this absolutely floor shaking mashup of MJ’s “Thriller” and their own “Watch Out.” Download “Watch Out For Thriller” here. City Rain play tonight at the Sundrop Music ...
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From Tragedy to Triumph

Source: The New York Times

By Jason Spingarn-Koff From War to Peace: A dozen years ago, a girl in Sierra Leone became an unlikely symbol of human depravity. The Op-Ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof finds she is now a high school freshman in Washington. BEFORE I tell you about a ...
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Kailani supplemented to Oaks

Source: Blood Horse

The Mahmood al Zarooni-trained Kailani was supplemented to the Group 1 Oaks at a cost of £20,000, making 14 three-year-old fillies still eligible to contest Friday's classic at Epsom Downs. Kailani is out of the 2002 Oaks heroine Kazzia and like her ...
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Manila team arrives tomorrow

Source: Guam Pacific Daily News

GuamBasketball.com, together with St. John's School, presents the inaugural 3-on-3 HotShots Tourney at Dale J. Jenkins Gymnasium with round-robin games being played tomorrow starting at 10 a.m. Double-elimination playof ...
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Fledgling Dylan learns to soar

Source: Adelaide Now

Dylan Darley, 11, in the air with Ikee Blackman, 10, and Kodi Shore. Picture: Dylan Coker Source: Sunday Mail (SA) WITH his halo of blond curls and his youthful grace, budding ballet dancer Dylan Darley seems made for the stage. But like many chi ...
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Weekend Listening: Bob Dylan To Receive Presidential Medal Of Freedom

Source: Psych Central

Along with Beloved author Toni Morrison, Girl Scouts Founder Juliette Gordon Low, and Lady Vols Coach Pat Summitt, the first female United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and former United States Marine Corps pilot, astro ...
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