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...even though it's a $350-per-person, five-hour boat trip from the mainland. According to a report by Peter Beck, the Northeast Asia project director for the International Crisis Group, "One would be hard pressed to find a single Korean over the age of five willing to admit that control of Dokdo does not matter." By contrast, says Hideshi Takesada, a professor of Korean politics at Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies, "most people in Japan have no knowledge of the issue," and little appreciation of how deep Korean resentment runs...
This is a perfect example of the “wrong” time to admit your true feelings. But we can learn from Roberts, for although she chose to be honest too late, you are blessed with time. You are still within the socially acceptable limits for confronting your fears and seeing where honesty can take you. I cannot tell you when to tell him, but it is definitely sometime between now and when he says...
Most of the 60 million people who voted against George W. Bush have lifestyles more like mine than the Democratic Party would like to admit. Most of us aren't the Hollywood lite or the nontraditional family. Many of us do what I do, which is go to church on Sunday, work hard and value my marriage. Again, it's not so much my party's platform that rejects the family; God help us all if Bush's brutality to the poor continues much longer. It's a small but very vocal minority, the Democratic pundits, who abhor what...
Scientists are hailing Tiktaalik roseae, or the fossil "fishapod," as evidence of evolution [April 17]. Yet in the same article, they admit that the elongated fin of the fishapod would have been "worse than useless" on land and that the appendage is only "anatomically"--and not functionally--intermediate between lobed fins and legs. The article presented more evidence of the grip that evolution has on scientists than it did for the theory...
...might imagine, oppressed by getting and spending somewhat beyond their means, and their whole way of life is threatened by Bob?s fat-headed and sadistic boss. He insists that Bob cancel a family vacation in Hawaii in order to attend a merger meeting in Colorado. Bob refuses to admit the pressure he?s under, rents an ungainly RV and pretends the trip will re-bond his family...