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...insulting and confirmed TIME's bias against the Republican Party. Granted, the G.O.P. hasn't done itself proud recently. The overspending and lobbyists' activities have been demoralizing. But when Democrats have erred, has TIME ever expressed such contempt? Republicans may regret their party's mistakes, but they shouldn't abandon...
...countries. That trade is critical to the survival of Kim's regime: some 90% of Pyongyang's daily oil supply and just under half its food imports come from China. Although the U.S. believes that tightening the financial squeeze on Pyongyang is necessary to persuade Kim to abandon his newly tested nuclear arsenal, Beijing fears that a cutoff in aid would bring about the collapse of the North's economy, touch off civil unrest and lead to an influx of millions of poor, hungry refugees on its borders. In response to Kim's test on Oct. 9, the U.N. Security...
...countries. That trade is critical to the survival of Kim's regime: some 90% of Pyongyang's daily oil supply and just under half its food imports come from China. Although the U.S. believes that tightening the financial squeeze on Pyongyang is necessary to persuade Kim to abandon his newly tested nuclear arsenal, Beijing fears that a cutoff in aid would bring about the collapse of the North's economy, touch off civil unrest and lead to an influx of millions of poor, hungry refugees on its borders. In response to Kim's test on Oct. 9, the U.N. Security...
...fact that the issue in Britain does not seem to be the veil per se, but the more extreme full-face covering known as the niqab, the comments of Blair and Straw seem perfectly reasonable to me. Neither of them asked Muslim women to abandon their belief in hijab, or the custom of veiling, altogether. Both zeroed in on the niqab, a minority practice considered extreme by even mainstream Muslim standards. (The niqab tradition is confined to certain regions of the Muslim world, parts of the Gulf, and Pakistan; a similar covering is known as the burqa in Afghanistan...
...monkey population has grown in recent years - in addition to the urban feasts seeming to attract more, Malik also blames scientific laboratories, which use monkeys for experiments and then abandon them - the natural balance has been thrown off kilter. Hungry monkeys attack people and snatch food when they can. In 2004, monkeys were blamed when Ministry of Defence officials found top secret documents scattered around an office. Monkeys have broken into parliament and kept people from entering their own houses...