Richard Cohen
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The irrationality that is IranOct 19, 2011 5:00 am - A mere moment or two after the Obama administration announced it had discovered and thwarted a plot by Iran to murder Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States by b...
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Execution, on the sneakOct 12, 2011 5:00 am - Who is David Barron? Wikipedia says David Barron may refer to a British film producer, a footballer, an actor or a sports writer. Google says he could be a hairstylist ...
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It’s Christie’s temper, not his weightOct 05, 2011 5:00 am - Chris Christie must have spent the last week feeling a bit like one of those bodies on a crime show. He was picked and poked, turned this way and that, examined from hea...
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Lovable King Perry asserts his conservatismSep 28, 2011 4:00 am - I am beginning to feel about Rick Perry the way Fay Wray felt about King Kong. The big ape is starting to grow on me. First I was shocked and then I was scared but now, ...
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Fifties fantasy finally fading in AmericaSep 21, 2011 4:00 am - Aside from his multiple infidelities, prodigious drinking and having the personality of a mud wall, what finally caused Betty Draper to separate from Don Draper, her hus...
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A lot is slipping backward for IsraelSep 14, 2011 5:00 am - Back in 1953, an Egyptian army officer was asked by the magazine Al-Musawwar what he would write to Hitler if he were still alive. “My Dear Hitler,” he began gushingly, ...
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The day of terror that never endsSep 07, 2011 4:00 am - The teacher stands before a class of young men. He is flanked by open windows. A military parade passes outside the school and martial music fills the classroom. The tea...
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Our interests to interveneAug 31, 2011 5:00 am - In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt named an obscure history professor, William E. Dodd, as ambassador to Germany. Dodd was a principled but prosaic man, whose gift to popula...
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Rick Perry should stop and thinkAug 24, 2011 5:00 am - Whatever global warming might or might not have done to polar bears, it has put Rick Perry’s presidential candidacy at risk. The Texas governor clings to an ice floe of ...
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The Texas gipperAug 17, 2011 5:00 am - Watching the emergence of Rick Perry over the weekend was instructively nostalgic. Here again was a governor declaring for the presidency and some very wise people cauti...