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...control. For China and Russia, the endgame remains restoring the six-party talks and persuading North Korea to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for political, economic and security incentives. Moscow and Beijing - as well as South Korea - agree that North Korea must be punished for its flagrant disregard of Security Council demands that it refrain from nuclear testing. But they don't believe sanctions will force North Korea to change course, and fear that the more pressure they bring to bear on Pyongyang, the more likely the regime is to escalate the crisis...
...difficult as it is for Noah to be a friend and teacher at the same time, Noah also feels as if he has been thrust into a parental position. To make up for Dr. Thayer’s disregard for her daughter, Noah tries to expose Tuscany to a larger world than the hot clubs and hot 30-year-old men in New York City. Eventually, like the hired tutors of the Jane Austen era, Noah becomes Tuscany’s full time teacher...
...College accepts that zero tolerance is wrong, the only fair, safe, and sensible approach would be for all three bodies to more formally endorse the College’s general policy of leniency. This need not mean a public declaration of intent to disregard federal laws—that would clearly be stupid—but rather internal communication that ensures consistency. As counselors like to tell us, “A problem shared is a problem halved” (or in this case, trisected): The College needs to arrange a good, long talk between its three drugs-related bodies...
...Iran continues to disregard demands that it stop enriching uranium, the U.S. military has issued a "Prepare to Deploy" order and is reviewing plans for blockading Iranian oil ports. Does that mean war? Most readers said, No way, and blamed escalating tensions on a trigger-happy Administration at home...
...unifying trait of these Latin American Macbeths is that they disregard democratic continuity; nothing transcends them. This is even represented in the syntax used every time a new regime or military junta is called in. The PRI party’s name in Mexico, which “won” elections uninterruptedly for almost a century, stands for “Institutional Revolution Party.” In Argentina, the last military junta instituted a permanent “Process of National Reorganization,” which gave painful birth to thousands of “desaparecidos...