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Bye Bye, Bush
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Reason #1. Because the Prez, um, could look different at times. And he could also be suitably enigmatically philosophic when the occasion so demanded. For example, as he said at Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000: "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who they are, but we know they're there."
Also See: Misunderestimated
Him? Never.
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Other Photoessays
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World 2008
It was clearly an year of change with democracy seemingly triumphing with elections in Bhutan, Nepal, Maldives, Pakistan, Zimbabwe...and, of course, the USA
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2007: Beyond The Borders
Pakistan's woes were compounded with Benazir assassination; while the rest of the neighbourhood and beyond tried to come to grips with the ups and downs of democracy and, of course, the spectre of terror
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Kabul Expressed
We wished to avoid the more obvious images of war, of the destruction of a city that looks like such a civilised paradise in Nancy Dupree's old guidebooks, but it was hard.
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2006: The World
Nuke-deal with USA, Havana handshake and mohabbat with Pakistan, unfunny cartoon and veil controversies, Iran, Iraq and Lebanon War dominated. Not many mourned for Dafur.
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2005: The World
Was this a successful year, diplomatically speaking? From the bridge over troubled borders with Pakistan to walking in step with Bush. Plus all the movers and shakers on the global stage.
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2005: The Global Grief
From the tsunami after-effects through London 7/7, Katrina, the earthquake in PoK, to the continuing death, destruction and atrocities in Iraq and elsewhere in the world...
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2005: A Happy World
Were there reasons to smile, laugh, make merry, have fun, revel, play, joke, rejoice, celebrate? Here are some.
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Best Of 2004
Indian photographer Arko Datta wins the Photo of the year 2004 at the 48th annual World Press Photo contest.
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The World 2004
From Indo-Pak bhai-bhai to Bush re-election and the never-ending violence in Iraq and Yasser Arafat's death to all the other events that hogged headline space.
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Saddam, Captured
'WE GOT HIM'. With these three words Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III announced at a press briefing in Baghdad today that U.S. forces had captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein near his hometown of Tikrit.
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