The Obama administration is rolling out a new military strategy aimed at absorbing federal budget cuts. NPR's Tom Bowman reports President Obama unveiled a plan today that as the defense secretary noted was inevitable in a changing world. Defense Sec

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Michelle Bachelet was born in 1951. She is the first woman to become President of Chile. She won the 2006 election in a runoff, campaigning to help reduce the countrys huge gap between rich and poor. In 2008, Time magazine ranked her fifteenth on its

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By Ernest Leong Washington, DC 20 December 2006 watch 2006 Legends report From Hollywood legends to international despots, the world marked the passing of some colorful and controversial figures in 2006. More on these gone, but not forgotten, people

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Egyptians Wonder When, If, Mubarak Case Will End Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is set to appear in court again June 8, as the case against him grinds slowly on. His retrial on charges he was complicit in the murder of protesters during the

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December 10th, 1964Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Norways capital Oslo. The clergyman and activist is honored for his nonviolent campaign to end segregation of African Americans in the south. I stil

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Chile;Man of the moment; 文艺;书评;智利;谁主沉浮; The Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future. By Ricardo Lagos with Blake Hounshell and Elizabeth Dickinson. 《南虎:智利为民

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By Jane Chambers Santiago 12 December 2006 Family and friends of former Chilean military leader Augusto Pinochet have paid tribute to the late general at a funeral in Santiago. Pinochet died Sunday afternoon after suffering a heart attack. From Sant

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By Michael Bowman Washington 11 December 2006 A woman hits a Pinochet opponent of with her purse as he is taken away by police officers near area where thousands of supporters gathered to pay tribute in Santiago, 11 Dec 2006 Reaction to the death Su

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December 10th, 1964Civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Junior accepts his Nobel Peace Prize in Norways capital Oslo. The clergyman and activist is honored for his nonviolent campaign to end segregation of African Americans in the south. I stil

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October 16th, 1859John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on. An incident that brings America closer to Civil War. Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on a Federal

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October 16th, 1859 John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on An incident that brings America closer to Civil War. Abolitionist John Brown's raid on a Federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry in whats now West Virginia, h

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October 16th, 1859 John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on An incident that brings America closer to Civil War. Abolitionist John Brown's raid on a Federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry in whats now West Virginia, h

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