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Last week’s arrest of Cuban-American Alberto Vilar on charges of criminal fraud drew gasps throughout the world of performing arts that were louder than those heard when Luciano Pavarotti croaked at an opening-night performance at Milan’s La Scala in 1992. After all, Vilar had become as popular in the art world for his charitable giving… Read more.

Washington is still abuzz with the revelation of the identity of Deep Throat. And, the idle chatter is not limited to the salons of Georgetown or the offices along K Street. After all, even TV and print journalists seem tethered to an obsessive exploration of this entirely inconsequential story. Regrettably, now few people outside of… Read more.

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso cries in despair yesterday upon learning of the death of the EU constitution… As predicted in a recent article, the French and now the Dutch have rejected the EU Constitution in resounding fashion. And, even the most committed Europhile has to concede that this document will never come into… Read more.

Mark Felt: The conscience of the FBI, or a career opportunist who conspired to bring down a US president to further his career? First of all, if your only reference to Deep Throat is Linda Lovelace and XXX action, click here to release your mind and the rest will follow…. But for those who are… Read more.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky: Billionaire would-be political rival to Putin, now a political dissident sentenced to hard times in a Russian labour camp… Today marks a milestone in Russia’s ambivalent transition from totalitarianism to democracy. And, alas, it does not bode well for the Russian democratic reformers in whom so many Western companies and governments invested their… Read more.

Danica Patrick: The new face of high-speed auto racing! To the sporting snobs who dismiss auto racing as a simple-minded redneck sport (especially those who’d rather sit around for hours watching pot-bellied men club and chase a little ball over manicured lawns until – with all of the suspense of watching paint dry – they… Read more.

I want ya’ll to listen to me cause I’m gonna say this just one more time: I did not have anyone or say anything as reported in that book. Now, I got work to do helping Tsunami victims, curing AIDS and ending poverty… First Edward Klein exposed the truly secret life of Hillary Clinton, now… Read more.

Hey, we honour the memory of dead presidents by going to shopping malls and the memory of dead soldiers by going to the beach….So what’s your problem! News and Politics Read more.

In recent days, Jacque Chirac has appeared more like an emperor issuing increasingly desperate decrees to save his empire than as President of France presenting a referendum for his countrymen to decide their national destiny. But whether imperial or presidential, Chirac’s leadership of his country seems tenuous at best because the French are in a… Read more.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak warned President Bush that invading Iraq would create a thousand bin-ladens. But, he said nothing about a thousand al-Zarqawis…. News and Politics Read more.