HuffPost World Daily Brief: Bloodshed In Damascus.. Ex-PM On Hunger Strike.. Secret Service Suspension

Tuesday, April 24, 2012
BEIRUT — Rebels seeking to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime launched three separate attacks on his security forces around Damascus on Tuesday, killing two ranking officers and rocking the capital with a booby-trapped car, activists and state media said.
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Our culture has a way of collectively falling into the groove of conventional wisdom, whether that means seeing everything through the outdated prism of left vs. right or willfully blinding ourselves to unpleasant or inconvenient facts. So, I'm delighted that today HuffPost Business is presenting a video collaboration (freakoration?) with Stephen Dubner, co-author of Freakonomics and Super Freakonomics. Dubner brings his trademark humor, willingness to challenge conventional wisdom, and passion for starting conversations to three very different topics, and in doing so, reinforces two very important truths. First, that the forces influencing our economic life manifest themselves in many unexpected and surprising ways. And second, that conventional wisdom is often dead wrong.
Anoosh Chakelian: The Kardashians: Keeping up With the Armenian Genocide
Flagship Kardashian, Kim, who lashed out at Turkish Cosmo this time last year for putting her on the cover in the month of genocide remembrance, advises her sister to "be careful, because you're Armenian." Indeed, last year she wrote a blog post on the matter, emphasising her strong connection to her background.
Daniel N. Nelson: Soldiers' Stories
What will today's veterans say about their multiple tours in Iraq or Afghanistan? How will they explain to their children and grandchildren, if they are able, why they or their friends sustained their grievous physical or mental injuries?
Louis Belanger: Leading Relief Groups Warn of Worsening Food Crisis in West and Central Africa
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Daphne Eviatar: The U.S.-Afghan Strategic Partnership: Hold the Applause
Having been in the country for the past decade and seized and imprisoned thousands of suspected fighters, the United States has an obligation to help the Afghan government establish a justice system that will treat them fairly. It will surely be blamed later if it doesn't.
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