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World's Top Shoe Misusers

Matt Cantor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:26:06 CDT

Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi reporter who threw a shoe at George W. Bush, was released from jail yesterday, leading the Christian Science Monitor to reflect on other top “footwear misusers” through the years: Richard Reid: The would-be shoe bomber brought homemade explosives onto a flight from Paris to Miami in...

US vs. Russia: Who's Won Summits Past?

Jason Farago — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:41:43 CDT

As Barack Obama arrives in Moscow for his toughest diplomatic challenge since taking office, the Guardian looks back on earlier US-Russia showdowns to gauge who had the upper hand. Kennedy vs. Khrushchev, 1961 : The ultimate cold war summit, shadowed by the space race and the Berlin Wall. A draw, although...

JFK Negotiated (and Got His Butt Kicked)

Jason Farago — Thu, 22 May 2008 12:55:26 CDT

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama often invokes a JFK maxim—"Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate"—to back up his commitment to talk to America's enemies. But in a Times op-ed, two writers observe that Kennedy learned a tough lesson when...