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An American diplomat in Nairobi attends a party at his ambassador’s residence and, possibly after a drink or two, gets into a head-on collision with a car driven by a teacher. The diplomat calls the American Embassy for help, a security detail arrives and whisks him away to a hospital, while ...  (Read more)

Fact #1: Ethiopia faces a famine that could be worse than the one that took a million lives in 1984.

Fact #2: Many years ago Ethiopia’s government nationalized a minor company partly owned by Nestle.

Fact #3: Ethiopia is offering $1.5 million to Nestle, which earned $3.9 billion in net profits ...  (Read more)

This is not a good time to be considered an “enemy combatant.” If you want to know why, click here to read my latest story in The New York Times Magazine.

A few nights ago I saw “Adaptation,” the smartest movie since “Being John Malkovich.” There’s a reason why.

The cost of invading Iraq, according to The Washington Post. No refund from Saudi Arabia this time.

The Bosnian war had its share of unforgettable monsters—Slobodan Milosevic, Franjo Tudjman, Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic come to mind—but the most intriguing (and least notorious) was Nikola Koljevic, a Shakespearean scholar who was an architect of the attempted genocide against Bosnia’s ...  (Read more)

Organizations like United Way can give philanthropy a bad name. This story in The New York Times outlines the deceptive manner in which United Way accounts for the money it receives, and as the Times notes, “Its accounting ...  (Read more)

Bob Woodward’s new book, “Bush at War,” offers more details on the campaign to buy victory in Afghanistan. According to an excerpt in today’s Washington Post, a senior CIA undercover agent, ...  (Read more)

In a story that previews Bob Woodward’s new book, “Bush at War,” The Washington Post reports that the purchase of warlords’ loyalty played a large role in toppling the Taliban from power. ...  (Read more)