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Opinion: Can Democracy Take Root in Egypt?
By not in system - AOL NewsWith the decision by Hosni Mubarak to step down, nothing will ever be the same again in Egypt, nor perhaps in the Arab world. So the real question now is, what comes next? Will Egypt turn to some form of representative government? Perhaps, but it's pure fantasy to believe that this will be anything like Eastern Europe in 1989, when communism fell in those countries and was quickly replaced with democratic rule. Instead, it will be more akin to post-World War II Japan. Similarities between Egypt's current turmoil and the crushing of European communism start and end with the possibility of a ...
Ronald Reagan Lives On -- in Schools, Streets and a Warship Bearing His Name
By Annie Groer - Politics DailyRonald Reagan's 100th birthday falls on Sunday, Feb. 6. But Grover Norquist, the conservative Republican who founded Americans for Tax Reform, wants something more permanent than mere speeches and celebrations to memorialize the 40th president of the United States. As founder of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, Norquist dreams of the day when all 3,130 U.S. counties, parishes, boroughs and independent municipalities have something, anything -- a school, a street, a library -- named for Ronald Reagan. This president earned it fair and square because "he broke the back of the Soviet Union ...
The Reagan Centennial: The Gipper Reconsidered
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyAs an anti-Vietnam war left-wing college student at the University of Michigan in the late 1960s, my world view was all primary colors (mostly red) with no shading. That was why I was so baffled by my non-ideological reaction to Ronald Reagan. Covering the 1968 Republican Convention in Miami Beach for my college paper ("Special to the Michigan Daily"), I sat mesmerized as the first-term California governor made a public pitch to the North Carolina delegation in a last-ditch effort to woo the South away from Richard Nixon. Even though I disagreed with everything Reagan was saying about ...
Germany Marks 20 Years of Reunification
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BERLIN (Oct. 3) -- Germany's president celebrated the country's new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification on Sunday. Germany's post-World War II division ended with reunification on Oct. 3, 1990 - less than 11 months after communist East Germany opened the Berlin Wall amid pressure from massive demonstrations. President Christian Wulff paid tribute to East Germans who protested against the regime, saying that "their courage impressed the world." He said their chants of "we ...
Michael Reagan to Arkansas GOP: What Would Ronald Reagan Do?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyLITTLE ROCK, Arkansas -- Michael Reagan knows what fires up the Republican base -- his father. On Friday night, Reagan visited Arkansas -- a battleground state in the midterm elections -- to urge 300 GOP faithful at the state's annual convention to focus on the big picture, not the small details. That is, if they want to recapture Ronald Reagan's "shining city on a hill." "We shouldn't worry about who gets the credit," said Reagan, a former conservative radio host and the adopted son of Ronald Reagan and the actress Jane Wyman. "We should worry about winning the elections in November." In ...
Bird Brains Compete for 'Turkey of the Year'
By Buck Wolf - AOL NewsJust how did the turkey -- a bird native to North America -- become synonymous with thoughtless, annoying people, so often overstuffed with jive? Let's face it, some of our nominees for 2009 Turkey of the Year wouldn't be welcome at any Thanksgiving dinner. So, with no further ado, let's look at some of the year's most fowl personalities. AP Roguishly Raw: That ring you hear when your 15 minutes of fame are up must be a call from someone asking you to pose nude. Levi Johnston's offer came from Playgirl, and he promised the pictorial would be "tasteful." We now know that Johnston's ...
German Reunification: An Eastern -- and Less Triumphant -- Perspective
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyYesterday marked the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And all over Europe and America, the press has been awash with stories of that historic night and all that it symbolized. ...
Hillary Clinton To Lead U.S. Delegation At Berlin Wall
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailySecretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will lead the U.S. delegation to Germany for the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the White House has announced The delegation for next week's ceremony will include the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Philip Murphy, and German Marshall Fund President Craig Kennedy, the Associated Press reported. Also traveling with Clinton will be Brett Scowcroft, a top aide to Presidents Ford and George H.W. Bush, and President Carter's aide Zbigniew Brzezinski. The German capital will be the site of a weeklong celebration of the fall of the wall that ...
20 Years On, a Street Recalls the Berlin Wall
By William Boston - AOL NewsBERLIN (Nov. 6) -- Astrid Kaiser still trembles when she remembers being frisked as a child by Red Army guards at the fortified border on Bernauer Strasse, where communist East Germany first began erecting the Berlin Wall on Aug. 13, 1961. "They even searched my doll carriage," says Kaiser, now 58. "I still feel uneasy walking on the eastern side." As Germany celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989, this street in its former shadow sums up the mix of pain, hope and nostalgia the wall still inspires. Urban change has erased many of the last vestiges of ...
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