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...have been eased by the regime's demonstration of a capacity to lash out with nuclear weapons if it is being choked to death. Given North Korea's huge standing army and the vulnerability of South Korea to its conventional artillery and missile capability - as well as the extent of U.S. commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan - any military response remains unlikely...
...will alter the tenses and grammar of the international community's demands, from insisting that North Korea refrain from developing and testing nuclear weapons to insisting that it reverse course and agree to denuclearize under international supervision. Those demands will likely now be backed by tougher sanctions, although the extent of likely sanctions is uncertain because the factors restraining neighbors from choking North Korea's food and energy lifeblood remain in place. And North Korea clearly sees its nuclear test not as ending the discussion, but rather as a way of strengthening its negotiating position: Its statement last week announcing...
...Besides being pulled over on the Mass Pike a few times, that was about the extent of my interaction with the troopers,” the charming and cordial actor says. “You remember that movie ‘The Hard Way,’ with Michael J. Fox? I was kind of like Fox, like ‘Hey guys, can I get a gun?’ And they were like, ‘Shut up, no.’ They didn’t give me a gun, luckily...
...basic strictures of demographics, declining numbers of workers combined with rapidly rising numbers of retirees, virtually all of the pension or social security schemes currently in place in the European Union, and to a lesser extent, the United States, will have to undergo significant changes in order to remain solvent. Few politicians, however, seem to want to be the first to tell the elderly that, in the interest of society, they need to take a large cut in their benefits, delay retirement, or both...
...that crosses their path, candidates advertise their credentials and “their vision for a new UC.” Besides personal networking, the main electoral criterion is the pre-election debate: essentially, how effectively a candidate can give evasive answers to difficult and often irrelevant questions.To an extent, this is the price one pays for holding popular elections. In the case of the UC, however, the whole situation is tragicomic, because the stakes are so low. The UC’s eloquent visionaries simply allocate money to student groups, provide shuttles to Yale and the airport, and launch...