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• Friedman gets an A- Posted by Ira Sharkansky

  
  The Jerusalem Post BlogCentral — Authority: 438
  Thomas Friedman has written one of his better articles .    As a retired professor still inclined to give grades to everything I hear or read, Id say about 92, or A-.   The major theme is quite good. Friedman recognizes that there is no gas left in the peace process. Its like going to an old play, where the actors ...
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• On Israel and Palestine

  
  swimming freestyle — Authority: 483
  I admit Im something of a sap.  Im one who believes as long as theres a chance of accomplishing something, there ought to be an effort.  But, perhaps as the occasionally sensible Thomas Friedman suggests , its time for the U.S. ought to back away from the age old Israeli/Palestinian conflict.  The ...
  1 day ago

• U.S. economy 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  NYT  Financial crisis one year later ;  Joseph Cassano, former head of A.I.G.’s Financial Products unit: The Man Who Crashed the World ; Reuters special coverage Wall Street pay Bank Lending Down Despite Massive Bailouts And Increasing Regulations While financial institutions including Citigroup Inc. and ...
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• Friedman Redivivius

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 690
  The old (and good) Tom Friedman was on display in yesterday’s op-ed. The guy who knows and can communicate The Middle East.  Key quote: Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly not feeling enough pain to do anything hard for peace with each other — a mood best summed up by a phrase making the ...
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• Call White House, Ask for Barack: The Line Is Disconnected

  
  JG, Caesarea — Authority: 123
  In a November 8, 2009 New York Times op-ed entitled, "Call White House, Ask for Barack", Thomas Friedman writes: "The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. . . . . Indeed, it’s time for us to dust off James Baker’s line: When you’re serious, give us a call: 202-456-1414. Ask for Barack. ...
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• Dreaming of global communication community that never was, and explaining why not

  
  Writing Boots — Authority: 421
  I had dinner the other night with old pal and IABC stalwart Wilma Mathews. She told me shes helping the association celebrate the 40th anniversary of its emergence out of the International Council of Industrial Editors. Not to be outdone in the Department of Musty Ledgers, I told her Id read most of the back issues ...
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• Friedman on Peace Process : America Should ‘Get Out of The Picture’

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 439
  In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Thomas Friedman, asserts that the United States should abandon the Palestinian-Israeli peace process altogether because it has become a play of the same script different cast: The Israeli-Palestinian peace process has become a bad play. It is obvious that all the ...
  2 days ago

• When you’re serious about the Middle East, stop living in the past

  
  Yourish.com — Authority: 437
  Thomas Freidman, today relives one of his greatest hits on Israel. In an op-ed entitled “ Call White House, Ask for Barack ,” Friedman writes: Today, the Arabs, Israel and the Palestinians are clearly not feeling enough pain to do anything hard for peace with each other — a mood best summed up by a phrase ...
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• Find Your “Place”

  
  Humanetrics LLC — Authority: 118
  There are so many “places” to make a difference in work and in life.NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman introduced a new term in a recent Op-Ed, “untouchable,” to mean those in the workplace who add great value and impact, and are therefore untouchable when it comes to layoffs. So, as managers, how do you [...]
  2 days ago

• Friedman speech: Time for a ‘real’ green revolution in U.S.

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  By KATHERINE JOHNSONDavidsonNews.netFor best-selling author and New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, green is the new red, white and blue. The “Green Revolution” will be “the next industrial revolution,” and will be the key to “how America can get its groove back,”  Mr. Friedman told a packed Duke ...
  6 days ago

• Tom Friedman visits Davidson College

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  New York Times columnist and award-winning author Thomas Friedman was at Davidson College Tuesday for a luncheon, book-signing and lecture titled “Hot, Flat and Crowded, An Update.” He answered questions at a luncheon for invited guests at midday, in the college union’s 900 Room. His public lecture was scheduled ...
  1 week ago

• Yale varsity to honour Nilekani with Leadership Award

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 3 (IANS) Nandan Nilekani, Infosys co-founder and chairman of India’s Unique Identification Database Authority, is set to become the first Indian to receive Yale university’s prestigious Legend in Leadership Award.The award of the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute will be ...
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• Today’s Top 5: Tuesday

  
  theCLog — Authority: 490
  Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, Nov. 3, 2009 — as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing. • Gemini at Lake Norman Comedy Zone in Galway Hooker • Thomas Friedman at Davidson College • Hymns at Snug Harbor • Karaoke at Fox and Hound in ...
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• Coming home to another war - War Is a Hate Crime

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Chris Hedges, was posted to Common Dreams.org, October 26, 2009 Violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people is wrong. So is violence against people in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in the bizarre culture of identity politics, there are no alliances among the oppressed. The Matthew ...
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• Afghan elections 2009

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  (BBC) Afghanistan country profile ; (Government of Canada) Afghanistan elections 2009 Election officials give Karzai second term as Afghan president Afghan election officials canceled the second round of a presidential vote slated for Saturday and declared incumbent Hamid Karzai the elected president. The ...
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• Friedman speech, theater, health care forum & more

  
  DavidsonNews.net — Authority: 441
  A Davidson College speech by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Thomas Friedman, Tuesday’s 2009 local elections and a public forum on health care are among a variety of newsy items on the calendar this week, in Davidson. Meanwhile, the arts calendar includes an interdisciplinary panel discussion tonight about the 1982 ...
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• Afghanistan, NATO and the U.S.

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 133
  (NYT) At War is a reported blog from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and other areas of conflict in the post-9/11 era ; (BBC) Afghanistan country profile and Afghanistan’s turbulent history ; International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) : Afghanistan elections 2009 Although Chuck Cogan’s ...
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• Is this Tom Friedmans "Walter Cronkite Moment" on Afghanistan?

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 611
  The Iraq wars chief New York Times cheerleader has reversed field on Afghanistan. Does it mean there will be no escalation?  In early 1968, after the devastating Tet Offense, CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite pronounced the Vietnam War unwinnable. Lyndon Johnson knew he had "lost middle America" and soon declined to ...
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• Tom Friedman gets Afghanistan Right

  
  Tales From the Rust Belt — Authority: 112
  Every once in a while you read something that so perfectly encapsulates your feelings on a subject you wonder how the writer can be in such synchronicity with you. That is the case with Thomas Friedmans column today in the New York Times. Mr. Friedman argues that we should not build up the troop levels in ...
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• Friedman’s Vote on Afghanistan

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 659
  Columnist Thomas Friedman has put in his vote for what we should do in Afghanistan: Don’t Build Up It is crunch time on Afghanistan, so here’s my vote: We need to be thinking about how to reduce our footprint and our goals there in a responsible way, not dig in deeper. We simply do not have the Afghan ...
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