2014年8月9日 星期六

2014-08-10 U.S. Spotlight

  Fox News   
I was there: Nixon's resignation and Watergate's legacy forty years later  Fox News
Forty years ago this week, Richard Nixon became the only president of the United States to resign from office. I was a junior member of Henry Kissinger's National Security Council staff and as close to the Watergate scandal as one could get without actually ...


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  TIME   
Landmark College Sports Verdict: Harsh, But In The End Puzzling  TIME
Ed O'Bannon Jr. Former UCLA basketball player Ed O'Bannon Jr. sits in his office in Henderson, Nev., Sept. 18, 2010. Isaac Brekken—AP. The judge's injunction in the Ed O'Bannon cases leaves plenty room to further challenge the NCAA's business model ...


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  National Geographic   
Losing Maya Heritage to Looters  National Geographic
The Los Arboles structure under excavation at Xultún, Guatemala, is a large pyramidal mound located at the far northern part of the site. Photograph by David Coventry, National Geographic/Ministerio de Cultura y Deportes, Gobierno de Guatemala.

   

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White House won't commit on stopping potential 'genocide' in Iraq, but weighing ...  Fox News
The White House stopped short Thursday of committing America's military to stopping a potential "genocide" in Iraq, declining to say whether doing so is in "America's core interests." Officials say the administration nevertheless is weighing options ranging ...


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President Obama authorizes airstrikes on militants in Iraq  PBS NewsHour
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama announced Thursday night he had authorized the Pentagon to launch targeted airstrikes if needed to protect Americans from Islamic militants in northern Iraq and help Iraqi security forces protect civilians under ...


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Dear Ole Miss: Minorities Are Done Being Haunted by Confederate Ghosts  TIME
Students protest the enrollment of James Meredith, the University of Mississippi's first black student. September, 1962. Rolls Press—Getty Images. Clinging to nostalgia will only hold back everyone at our university. It was my second semester of Ancient Greek ...


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  New York Times   
36 Hours: Lake Como, Italy  New York Times
In the foothills of the Alps in northern Italy, Lake Como deserves its reputation as a playground for the wealthy. Virtually deserted during the winter, the wishbone-shaped lake awakens from its slumber in mid-March when glamorous crowds begin flocking to ...


   

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US conducts 2nd airdrop of food, water to Iraqi refugees after airstrikes  Fox News
The U.S. conducted a second airdrop of food and water for thousands of refugees trapped in Iraq's Sinjar mountains early Saturday after launching airstrikes in northern Iraq against Islamic militants. The chief spokesman for the Pentagon, Rear Adm. John ...


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ISIS Is Ignoring Islam's Teachings on Yazidis and Christians  TIME
Displaced families from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, arrive at Dohuk province, Aug. 4, 2014. Ari Jalal—Reuters. Here's what the Prophet and the Quran really say about how to treat the two faith groups ...


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  National Geographic   
Who Are the Yazidis, the Ancient, Persecuted Religious Minority Struggling to ...  National Geographic
Displaced people from the minority Yazidi sect, fleeing the violence in the Iraqi town of Sinjar west of Mosul, take refuge at Dohuk province. Photograph by Ari Jalal, Reuters. Avi Asher-Schapiro. for National Geographic News. Published August 9, 2014.

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