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This promised to be a summer-long problem. I had always told myself I would never be a regular coffee drinker. I found the black syrup bitter, overly strong, and usually too hot. Plus, who cared if I dozed in class—I rationalized that I clearly needed the sleep, so it was good...
...Andrew Stern's vision for a more aggressive labor movement persuaded his union, the Teamsters and the United Food and Commercial Workers, together representing 4.6 million workers, to split from the AFL-CIO. TIME's Joseph R. Szczesny asks the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chief to explain the bitter divorce...
...Handouts in the Dark "The North's Bitter Harvest," on how North Korea is on the brink of famine [June 20], addressed a controversial issue. Should other countries provide North Korea with humanitarian aid when it refuses to relinquish its nuclear arsenal? The answer should be no. We do not know if donated food really goes to the poor and needy. How can one expect to resolve a crisis without being certain of the facts? We should decide to provide aid only if we know for certain the hungry will receive the food. Jennifer Bo-yu Chen Bangkok
...course, it will be hard to get Kim to undertake such reforms. The Romanian example undoubtedly weighs on him: Kim would certainly fear suffering the same bitter fate that Ceausescu experienced if he unleashes reforms he cannot control. That is why any effort to promote structural reform requires not just major carrots if Pyongyang cooperates, but sticks, particularly the credible threat of multilateral economic sanctions, if it does not. The status quo must be made unsustainable. Kim must be forced to choose cooperation or risk a confrontation that would impose an economic noose around his country's neck. He must...
...Britain copes with its future. The conversation has a special urgency among British Muslims. Many feel implicated in the attacks carried out ostensibly in the name of their religion. Yet there is also anger - anger at the ignorance of some who view all Muslims as potential terrorists and, most bitter of all, at fellow Muslims who excuse or espouse terrorism. The London blasts exposed fault lines, not only between different ethnic identities but between generations and economic classes. In an effort to find a common front, 22 Muslim leaders and scholars issued a joint statement last week. They called...