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PUBLISHED BY 2 A.M.June 25, 2006

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It's the sovereignty, stupid!

Paul Kennedy pens a conventional look at the United Nations while missing the bigger picture

We live in an age where pundits like Niall Ferguson, Robert Kaplan and Max Boot issue appeals, without irony, for the United States to act as an empire. They see a dangerous world of terrorists, “failed” states and a feckless United Nations, where only the U.S. can impose order.

    The humanist

    'Paul Almasy' is a fine collection of the photojournalist's work

    If you were on the “good” side of the colonial divide, and had some money and courage, the 1920s and 1930s were fine times for traveling that vast part of the globe not yet called Third World.

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