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Should we stay or should we go?

Surprisingly, a bipartisan consensus is emerging for bringing home our exhausted troops, yet President Bush clings to his chimera of total victory. Inside the escalating debate over Iraq.

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By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world

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