examiner.com - 1/13/2009
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Eight years ago, former President Jimmy Carter joined 10,000 Habitat for Humanity volunteers to build new homes for impoverished families on the Florida coast. It was part of a record-breaking 17-day construction blitz complete with celebrity photo-ops. The local Habitat for Humanity chapter ...
washingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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washingtonpost.com —
I know from personal involvement that the devastating
invasion of Gaza by Israel could easily have been
avoided. After visiting Sderot last April and seeing the serious psychological damage caused by the rockets that had fallen in that area, my ...
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Jimmy Carter - An Unnecessary War
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/20/2009
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ABC News' David Wright reports: Today may be
a day when the nation briefly sets aside partisan
enmity for the peaceful transition of power, but personal enmity? That’s another matter. One small example: as the ex-Presidents gathered in the crypt...
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Carter Snubs Clinton
media.washingtonpost.com - 1/8/2009
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Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or
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the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...
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Jimmy Carter - An Unnecessary War
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Jimmy Carter: saint or slumlord?
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The American Spectator —
... from all four (or maybe it was the other way around). It's not
easy being Jimmy Carter. Israel continues to ignore his
interventions,
homes he built for the poor are beyond dry rot -- at least
they won't be repossessed, he could counter -- and now his
economic achievement is about to be surpassed by an incoming
administration that refuses to recognize him as the architect of
its vision. But he's at peace with himself. So in a radical
departure, we will not burden him with an EOW award. One Nobel
Prize is enough for any man. ...
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