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Aristotle (, Aristotélēs) (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.
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The good citizens of Chicago experienced several days of protests this month surrounding the NATO summit.
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The capital is a city of magnificent front entrances that people can't enter.On Constitution Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill , sweeping marble staircase...
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Tom talks to Steve Forbes about his new book
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They descended by the hundreds -- black-shirted, bat-wielding youths chasing down dark-skinned immigrants through the streets of Athens and beating them senseless in...
ATHENS (AP) — A pony-tailed Greek on a motorcycle pulled up onto the sidewalk, hunting for a better parking spot, and an elderly tourist with a crutch shuffled out o...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — It's all so last millennium, that filthy business in the depths of the Gulf of Mexico .It reeks of yesterday's fuel, yesterday's sweaty labor — a h...
A Florida teenager was charged Wednesday with murdering his grandmother by stabbing her 93 times and shooting her in the head with a crossbow.Jasper Aristotle Smiddi...
If you've seen the new "Atlas Shrugged" movie but haven't yet read the book, you may be wondering what the novel itself has to offer.For most people, reading "Atlas ...
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