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OpEd , June 17, 2008
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As the Afghan war enters into what may be its final days, and the international community begins discussing its next steps, Americans will be learning more about the warrior people known to the British as Pathans, and more correctly nowadays as Pashtuns.
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THE editorial ''we'' was an institution when Henry Jarvis Raymond introduced the New-York Daily Times in 1851 -- though even then some thought that newspaper editorial pages were doomed. Noting the rise of neutral, fact-based reporting, an essayist in 186
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After a decade of getting, giving is now making news. Unusual donations crop up regularly on page one -- a retired laundress in Mississippi ($150,000 to a university), a secretive New Jersey businessman ($600 million, given anonymously), an eccentric oilm
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Losers rarely name wars, an exception being the conflict between Britain and China from 1839 to 1842, known bluntly ever since as the Opium War. To most Chinese, a century of humiliation began with this war, in which Westerners sought to force a deadly dr
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The ribbons were finally cut the other day at Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis., six decades after the convention and civic center was first proposed, and 38 years after the demise of its creator. Yet Frank Lloyd Wright was clearly a presence at the inaugur
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Grieve afresh for luckless Tibet. Out of the blue comes the disclosure that Heinrich Harrer, the author of ''Seven Years in Tibet,'' was not only a Nazi but a sergeant in Himmler's SS. Since Mr. Harrer was friend and tutor of the young Dalai Lama 50 years
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Although not intended by its sponsors, and not noticed by most visitors, there is a fascinating political subtext to ''The Glory of Byzantium,'' the Metropolitan Museum's sumptuous new show about Byzantine culture at its peak, from the 9th century to the
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Advocates of fox hunting in Britain have given a novel twist to an old dispute about blood sports. Faced with a May 1 election that the Labor Party is favored to win, they have formed a Union of Country Sports Workers to represent as many as 90,000 people
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It is a hopeful augury for Britain, and indirectly for all of us, that Scotland and its offspring are again making history. Not long after an Edinburgh research team succeeded in cloning the first grown animal, Edinburgh-born Tony Blair led the Labor Part
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Visitors may well be impressed by the prodigious talents on display in a fascinating show, ''Being William Morris,'' at Manhattan's Morgan Library. Shown in several galleries are the works and memorabilia of this British poet and artist who died a century
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A curious and stirring sight awaits an American visitor to Southwark Cathedral, a surviving relic of medieval England on the south bank of the Thames. Among monuments in the nave to titled worthies and deceased prelates is a plaque ''In Thanksgiving for S
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A sleeper awakening in Berlin after 75 years might be most amazed by something less obvious than the physical changes in Germany's once and future capital. The Prussian Kingdom, which united Germany and then dominated much of Europe in the previous 75 yea
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When the Clinton Administration sought United Nations approval to intervene militarily in Haiti, it was instantly accused of undermining that holy of holies, the Monroe Doctrine. This is a tried and true way of gaining shocked attention since most America
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145 articles by Karl E Meyer since 1981, on the New York Times website
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How to Lose Iraq, oped July 7-14, 2008
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Shareen Brysac, New York Times, 1992: THURINGIA, the smallest of the new states of Germany, was until a few years ago strictly off-limits to Western tourists, the kind of place East Germans had in mind when they talked of fruher...
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Article on the German Resistance, October 7, 2000
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Karl Meyer's Review of the Decline and Fall of the British Empire by Piers Brendon
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Karl E. Meyer on Sharon Waxman's Loot