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Covering Obama’s Secret War
May 3, 2011 08:30 AMIn the spring of 2009, New York Times reporter David Rohde was being held captive by Taliban gunmen in a house in Waziristan, a mountainous region on the Pakistan side of the border with Afghanistan. Aerial drones soared overhead,... Continue reading
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Cover Story
Too Close for Comfort?
September 9, 2009 08:00 AMThomas E. Ricks has a photograph of a general—Ulysses S. Grant, looking haggard and defeated in Cold Harbor, Virginia—on the wall of his office. His shelves are filled with books about Dwight Eisenhower, William Westmoreland, and other generals. A husky,... Continue reading
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