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Cherie Blair: enough to make you weep

Self-serving, smug, opportunistic, vain, shallow-thinking, nasty - memoirs are made of this

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Burma - the case for intervention

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NATO supreme commander General Wesley Clark answers reporters question about the latest developments in Kosovo war during his brief visit to U.S. military officials in Rinas airbase on Tirana's airport, Saturday, May 15, 1999.

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    open quote mark Burma is hardly the first country to be run by a regime that does not care about the welfare of the people it controlsclose quote mark

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