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GM bankruptcy: How will it impact the US?
The automaker got key concessions from bondholders this weekend to help smooth bankruptcy proceedings, which are expected to begin Monday.
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Palestinian clashes cast gloom on reconciliation efforts
Hamas has vowed revenge on Fatah after a shootout between the two factions in the West Bank that left six dead.
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N. Korea's nuclear defiance may embolden Iran, Israelis worry
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates promised Saturday that the US will not 'stand idly by,' but the communist nation's example could be a case study in how to side-step diplomacy.
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Pirates, Inc.: Inside the booming Somali business
Meet the modern-day brigands behind the sometimes sophisticated, always risky operations that raked in an estimated $80 million in ransoms in 2008.
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Commentary
The Monitor's View: What's in a name? Ask Jose and Muhammad
Demographic data confirm the world is changing, but in unexpected ways.
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EU's 'death' is greatly exaggerated
As the Continent's voters elect a new parliament, some of them trust the EU more than their own national leaders.
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Graduation calls for Alice Cooper, not old marching tunes
Pomp and circumstance is so 1901. Here's a better song list.
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Features
No Verizon Pre until 2010
Blog: Verizon stole yesterday's phone news cycle with the announcement that it would offer the Palm Pre and many other major smart phones "over the next six months or so."
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Are bigger cars safer?
Mention federal fuel efficiency standards - particularly Obama�s new standards - to hardline capitalist types, and watch as they suddenly morph into Ralph Nader.
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Want to sell a book? Try a little romance
There are plenty of people feeling anxious about the book industry these days (if you doubt it, just take a look at the New York Times's report on BookExpo America 2009, currently taking place in NY), but not romance writers. For them, it just keeps getting better.
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Point of view: All in a dare
A Monitor photographer is challenged to take a picture on his subject's terms.
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Christian Science perspective: Restoration, renewal, rebirth
The office building in Kalamazoo, Mich., where I work is a big, black cube of nine floors.
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