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Munich Olympics massacre: the fight for remembrance

Ankie, widow of Andre Spitzer, with a photograph of her late husband. Photograph: Gali Tibbon for the Guardian For 40 years, through nine Olympic Games since that dreadful day in Munich in 1972,…
PUBLISHED: June 26, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2244 words)

Counting the cost of the 9/11 wars

If, just over a decade ago, you had looked north through binoculars from frontline Taliban positions 30 miles north of Kabul, you would have seen an old Soviet-built airbase, little more than a…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 22, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2560 words)

America's serious crime rate is plunging, but why?

Police investigate a crime scene in Washington DC. Serious crime across America has fallen to a 48-year low. Photograph: Jean Louis Atlan/Sygma/Corbis On one of the…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 21, 2011
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1566 words)

Why do women become sex workers, and why do men go to them?

The womenLet me preface this by saying I grew up in a well-to-do family. I had more opportunity andprivilege than most, but the divorce of myparents in my first year of university ultimately…
SOURCE:Guardian
PUBLISHED: Aug. 5, 2011
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2641 words)

Gaddafi's end … and Libya's new beginning

The crucial blow came as Muammar Gaddafi and much of the world looked the wrong way. The Libyan revolutionaries who swept out of the western mountains and into Tripoli, turfing a hated tyrant…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 28, 2011
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2400 words)
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