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Nicholas Thompson, a reporter and Nitze's grandson, argues that while Kennan set the course of the Cold War, Nitze tried to win it. His dual biography of the two reveals a great deal about the early days of that superpower conflict and its aftermath. ... Original Article

It was then that group leader Steven Clemons -- senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington, DC-based public policy group -- knew that the ...

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For help in understanding the process that has brought us to this impasse we have Jedediah Purdy's compact discourse on how Americans have considered the meaning of freedom since 1776. Purdy, a professor of law at Duke University, ...

...Sen. Barack Obama, a Democrat, would create a National Health Insurance Exchange for any individual and business that wants to purchase a private insurance plan or enroll in a new public plan. Subsidies would be provided to families with lower incomes to help make insurance affordable.

While still giving workers the option of retaining their employer-based coverage, Republican candidate John McCain would make tax credits available to help them obtain their own insurance. He also wants to allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines.

Market Doubts Hit Private Student Loans (Pittsburg Post-Gazette)

...Sallie Mae and others are experiencing a growing default rate. The sub-prime mortgage crunch has spilled over into the student loan area, too, with investors less willing to buy loans of different kinds, said Stephen Burd, senior research fellow at New America Foundation, a nonprofit think tank.

"It's just a question of securitization right now," Mr. Burd said. ...

The Geneva Initiative came about soon after the breakdown of official Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations in early 2001. A group of former negotiators and public figures from both sides drafted a model peace agreement to show that there remained wide support among both Israelis and Palestinians for a solution based on two states for two peoples.

Just last spring, the steel import crisis was the talk of Washington. The House of Representatives had voted overwhelmingly to impose quotas on steel imports and the Senate was preparing to vote on the same legislation. For its part, the Clinton administration announced a "Steel Action Plan," which promised a variety of measures to stem the crisis as an alternative to legislation. An agency with responsibility for implementing U.S. trade laws, the U.S.