Word: heeling
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...TIME.com: So is reentry the Achilles heel of the shuttle program...
...spite of the North's increasingly menacing brinkmanship, South Korea advocates a diplomatic strategy markedly different from that of the U.S. While the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush is inclined to force North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il to heel by isolating him and imposing harsh sanctions, Seoul is pushing assistance and engagement?and it wants the U.S. to negotiate with Kim before he goes too far. Youthful South Koreans like Lee favor this approach. "They are rejecting the Cold War mentality and deliberately setting out on a new course," says Kim Kyung Won, former South Korean ambassador...
...down-at-heel, white-brick building in Clapham, South London, the season's most ambitious theatrical project is nearing completion in absolute secrecy. No outsider is allowed into the rehearsal rooms of the Royal Shakespeare Company as the famous theater troupe goes through the final test runs of Midnight's Children, adapted by Salman Rushdie from his beloved, groundbreaking 1981 novel. Those involved will only be interviewed in a room high in the building, away from where the show is taking shape. What's happening down there? "We're experimenting, playing games, finding a theatrical language for the play," says...
...dangerous illusions; when it comes to the imposition of the values of one nation on another, it matters not a whit how pure of heart are the motives of those doing the imposing. Imperialism takes its very existence from the perceptions of those who believe they chafe under the heel of the imperial power...
...Their Achilles’ heel is adverse publicity,” Gifford said...