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PARIS - People like to quote Karl Marx's comment on the two successive Napoleonic empires, that of Bonaparte himself, and after 1848, the Second Empire of his nephew, Napoleon III. Marx said that it was a tragedy repeated as a farce.
The United States has reversed the sequence, so that a few years ago the nation, or at least the Congress and media, were obsessed by Bill Clinton's disputed definition of what does or does not amount to sexual congress with a White House intern.See the full content of this document
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From Farce to Tragedy
The tragedy that has followed the farce is torture as an instrument of American national policy (in the cause of spreading democracy).
Documents recently obtained by the press reveal White House anxiety about how to protect President George W. Bush ...See the full content of this document
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