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...terrorist group whose military power is growing thanks to abundant support from the Iranian regime. Since 2006, when Hamas won Gaza’s elections, it has failed to fulfill any of the promises it made to Gaza’s people and dashed all their hopes for a better life...
...finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself...
...Judge Sonia Sotomayor's ruling in a controversial reverse-discrimination case, prompting a new round of attacks on her by Republicans. By a vote of 5 to 4, the court ruled that the city of New Haven improperly denied promotions to a group of white firefighters who had done better on a test than minority firefighters had. But aside from the ruling's implications for antidiscrimination law, the most intriguing issue raised by the decision is what it might mean for Sotomayor's influence on a court that she is almost sure to join in October...
...makes Beijing's policy toward North Korea even more central in any effort to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear-weapons program. But the North's recent disregard for its own economic conditions doesn't bode well for any attempt to use financial incentives to woo Pyongyang into better behavior. "They may still negotiate for some kind of deal," Noland says. "But I don't think we're going to get denuclearization" in the near term. That means North Korea's economy, just like its relations with the outside world, is likely to get worse...
...explaining why an MRI isn't necessary; hospitals don't get paid when their discharged patients don't have to go back to the hospital. Our goal for our health-care system is not more tests or more doctor's visits or longer stays in the hospital - it's better health. But that's not what gets paid for, so that's not what...