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February 2, 2012 | By Howard Kissel How much can a piece of paper be worth? Quite a lot, if it has Abraham Lincoln’s signature on it. The actual value of the over-sized sheet of paper that went on display Wednesday at the New-York Historical Society has not been disclosed. That, after all, would be [...]

January 13, 2012 | By Robert Fisk How many other abuses took place off camera? How many Hadithas? How many My Lais So now it’s snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead. Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured beside the innocent Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last year. [...]

Former KL Mayor speaks his mind on his memoirs, his ideas and why we don’t need an FT ministry WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012 | by Haresh Deol KUALA LUMPUR: Once the icon of Kuala Lumpur. Tan Sri Elyas Omar had his fair share of fans and critics as he played the role of the city’s third [...]

January 30, 2012 | By STEPHEN CASTLE and JAMES KANTER BRUSSELS — All but two European Union countries agreed Monday to new and tougher measures to enforce budget discipline in the euro zone, but the bloc still showed few signs of producing a comprehensive solution for the sovereign debt crisis or a credible plan to revive fragile economies across [...]

January 30, 2012 — While the Smithsonian gets ready to receive the retired space shuttle Discovery for display this spring, NASA, together with archivists spread across four states, is preparing to preserve the historic orbiter and its sister ships digitally and on paper. The agency’s efforts, called “Space Shuttle Recordation,” recently became public through a [...]