Word: correcting
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...weakened position among the ruling hard-liners, he was informed that firing more than one would put his entire Cabinet to a vote of confidence in parliament (he had already removed nine in his first term). Some 200 parliamentarians, a majority in the Majlis, subsequently warned Ahmadinejad to "correct his behavior so that he follows the Leader's opinion seriously...
...this makes the prospect of re-engaging with Pyongyang trickier than ever. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was correct last week when she said that North Korea now "has nowhere to go." It must return to negotiations in some forum. But with questions intensifying about just how long Kim will be around, and what might come next should he die, the Obama Administration's current caution is understandable. Whatever thoughts it may have had about a Grand Bargain on North Korea's nukes have been set aside for the moment. Said a diplomatic source: "Everyone ... is back to trying...
...system doesn't work," Lebedev says. "It has nothing to do with the ordinary Russian." He pauses for just a moment. "I don't think I'm an enemy of this state. I am a critic, yes. But they need an opposition who is going to correct their mistakes, and they need a different political system...
...violated ethics laws • hairdresser of suddenly starts tweeting about how full of lies the New York Times story about was - especially the part about the thinning hair of - a week after e-mailing the writer, "Thank you so much for the article!! It was perfect!" • less politically correct tweets are promised by • one last look at how nothing is ever the fault...
...Obama has no choice but to continue his full-court press of public advocacy for the rest of the summer and into the fall. It is true, as he points out, that much legislative progress - almost exclusively managed by his own party - already has been made. And he is correct that the current health-care system is both fiscally and morally unsustainable. But his high-profile prime-time performance, with insufficient specificity, scant new data and too many unanswered questions, likely did little to help his cause...