"Gadhafi: It's time Libya opened to the world"
The Associated Press, The Washington Post
March 2, 2007
By Lee Keath

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In the debate, held earlier Friday in front of a group of Western journalists, American political theorist Benjamin Barber and British social scientist Anthony Giddens politely--sometimes deferentially--pressed the man known here as "Brother Leader" on the need for reform.