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03.03.2009 12:57 pm

Syrian ambassador welcomes new U.S. diplomatic tone

Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch

Eddie Roth/Post-Dispatch

While the Syrian ambassador to the United States was speaking to St. Louis residents this week, the heretofore chilly U.S.-Syrian relationship was warming across the world.

Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha spoke to a community forum at the University of Missouri-St.…

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03.02.2009 5:41 pm

More tax woes in the Obama cabinet

The Dallas Morning News reports that another Obama cabinet appointee has been negligent in paying all of his taxes.

Ron Kirk, the former Dallas mayor who was nominated to be the U.S. trade representative in the Obama administration, failed to pay taxes…

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02.21.2009 10:31 am

Clinton focuses on climate change, not human rights, in China

Hillary Clinton meets Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. | Getty Images

Hillary Clinton meets Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao. | Getty Images

Secretary of State Hilary Clinton is in China, talking about the environment and other issues, but not talking much about human rights, a different tone from when she was first…

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11.25.2008 5:20 pm

Obama is set to announce his national security team

Secretary of Defense Bob Gates.

Secretary of Defense Bob Gates.

Bob Gates will stay on in the Obama adminstration as defense secretary, via Politico. That’s big news.

Politico also reports: Retired Marine Gen. James Jones, former Marine commandant and commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Europe, will…

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11.12.2008 11:51 am

Wanna job in the Obama administration?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Plum Book"Scout out the possibilities by reading the 2008 edition of the GPO publication “United States Government Policy and Support Positions,” also known as the “Plum Book,” the contents of which are available online.

Self-described as follows:

Published by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs…

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11.05.2008 3:03 pm

A letter of advice to a young president

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

President-elect Barack Obama is keeping a low profile today.  As Mr. Obama begins looking forward to his term, what advice would you give him on moving the nation forward, healing the partisan divide and dealing with crises on multiple…

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