Epstein Secrets

-- Seduced by catchy formulae, American punditry is often a prisoner of clichés. One such is: "It's the economy, stupid!", initially circulated by Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. For decades the meaningless phrase has cast a shadow on American politics. Uttering it clinches an argument, presentin

resident's meetings and phone calls with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. There was an announcement that

ed plan and transparent study to maintain Egypt's national interests. Nabil Fahmy is the dean of the School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the American University in Cairo. He served as Egypt's ambassador to the United States from 1999 to 2008, and as envoy to Japan between 1997 and 1999. Artick 3. Asharq A

s been doing quite well, having gained the enthusiastic endorsement of certain sectors of the American Jewish community as well as former president Bill Clinton (who blurbed the book) and Jeremy Ben-Ami, leader of the self-defined liberal pro-Israel organization J Street. Beinart has many points in his fav

is sweet but disturbingly tribalist, not to mention ultimately disrespectful of the background Obama does have. The president is not a Jew, just as Clinton was not our first black president. So why assert it? Because Beinart has identified Obama, who garnered overwhelming Jewish support in the last ele

l Fotoh," Abdel Fattah added. Fifty-six members of the decision-making council of the group voted for Al-Shater. Professor of political science at the American University in Cairo (AUC) Rabab El-Mandy agreed with Abdel Fattah, but said that Abol Fotoh and Abou Ismail will be equally harmed. "In the parliamentary ele

ans haven't earned the reputation -- from Richard Nixon ("I'm not a crook") to George H.W. Bush EFTA_R1_00298272 EFTA01883853 ("Read my lips") to Bill Clinton ("I did not have sexual relations with that woman") to Anthony Weiner ("That's not my ..."). No wonder, then, that in a U.S. election year with two

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y chiefs who served in powerful posts under deposed leader Hosni Mubarak may have been willing to step down, said Zeinab Abul-Magd, a historian at the American University in Cairo who has studied the military and has discussed the situation with several mid-level officers over the past two days. "There was a lot of

heavy drinking, rampant womanizing — excesses, addictions, vile bigotries. He is a good student. Strobe Talbott, a deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, wrote in The Post about meeting Putin in Moscow: "For no reason other than to show he had read my KGB dossier, he dropped the name

ing that any amendment or change requires its prior approval. In comments about the issue, Sherif Mousa, the director of the Middle East program at the American University in Cairo, said the agreement should be dealt with in the same way the borders of most of the Nile Basin countries are respected which have been dra

t is ironic that Obama is adopting Donald Rumsfeld's defense strategy -- high tech, light footprint. We will find, as we did in the Bush years, the Clinton years, and in many previous decades, that drones and missiles can only go so far in preserving American interests. If not reversed, the deep cuts

for reform all along, but that is after all the Bush/neocon/democracy activist line. Take U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's 2005 speech at the American University in Cairo or Bush's second inaugural address -- both reviled by "realists." It would be nice if some of the critics now admitted that such speeches