Word: agnosticism
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More importantly, the latest raids are symptomatic of an Iraq policy that's going nowhere. The reason for the strike was that the Iraqis have been more aggressively targeting U.S. and British warplanes patrolling the "no-fly" zones declared by the Western powers at the end of the Gulf War...
Right now, the planned missile shield would violate the 1972 Anti Ballistic Missile treaty, and Russia and China have voiced strong objections. Washington's European allies are mostly agnostic on missile defense, signaling that they'll support the scheme only if the U.S. can persuade the Russians to agree to...
Suffice it to say that Merrill Lynch's move - which will either spur a wave of similar image-primping among other financial-services houses or merely provide a really good reason for Merrill analysts to go work somewhere else - doesn't change the answer to yes. Heck, a lot of...
His third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think is best. But not for the reasons he suggests—that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely “accepted;” we aren’t here to accept or reject?...
Brought up in austerity, Indira Gandhi was a moody adolescent, highly sensitive to criticism, especially from her family. The Nehru household was divided along linguistic and religious lines. Her grandfather and father (and his sisters) spoke and wrote in English, while her mother and grandmother ate separately in their private...