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...regime change; but should he ever use his new weapon, regime change - administered in the form of massive nuclear retaliation by the U.S. and its allies - is now assured. And that points to the last unintended benefit of North Korea's nuclear test. After more than a decade of drift, indecision and disagreement, the world may finally have stumbled upon a coherent policy toward North Korea. It's called deterrence. At least we know it's worked before...
Will the Democrats behave any differently if they retake Congress in November? Some would undoubtedly try to use their majority power to exact revenge for Republican overreach. And history has shown them to be just as capable of the type of ideological drift that is tearing at the G.O.P...
...whereabouts could be exposed. "The palace is like a jail," says Shukria Barakzai, a member of Afghanistan's parliament and a Karzai ally. "The walls are so high that he has become distant from his own nation." That helps explain why, as hope fades and parts of the country drift into lawlessness, Afghans have started to direct their anger toward Karzai himself...
...worship in private because they can't--or won't--register with the government-controlled official Protestant Church, the so-called Three-Self Church (the church's name refers to its three guiding principles of self-reliance). The cries of hawkers selling vegetables and fruits in the alleyway below drift through the grimy windows, but the worshippers have eyes only for the front of the room, where a plump, middle-aged preacher in a tight gray suit stands at a small lectern. Behind him is a large wooden cross draped with a white cotton cloth. Several pictures of Jesus hang...
...avoid invisible rocks that rip the bottoms off boats. Lightning fries navigation systems, and storms sweep men off deck. Their only connections to the rest of the world are radios and unreliable cellular phone reception.And the shrimpers themselves are notorious, too. After trying day labor and construction, they often drift to this profession, where there is no boss but the ocean. As we sped farther into the Gulf, Chris scrutinized the regional section of the paper. He wanted to see his friends’ names, he joked.I worked with the people who photographed and wrote that section. They had told...