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...couple of counties in Ulster, read North Korea. Like a nagging toothache, the hermit kingdom won't go away. Obama may be able to change the national conversation in his own country, but when it comes to figuring what to do with a state that responds to neither the carrots nor the sticks of conventional international relations, he appears as powerless as those who have preceded him. Yes, a new Security Council resolution may tighten sanctions on the North. But if anyone thinks that will persuade the regime of Kim Jong Il to give up its nuclear ambitions, I have...
...Syrian referee, pushing the official to the ground. Irate fans hurled missiles - plastic bottles, mostly - at the Iranian team. The scenes then were broadcast via satellite around the world, giving watchers of the isolated communist state a strange, unprecedented glimpse of what civil disturbance could look like in the hermit kingdom. (See pictures of soccer riots at LIFE.com...
...record, St. Nikolaus, also known as Brother Klaus, is the patron saint of Switzerland. He was a 15th-century hermit and ascetic. If he had lived to see Zumthor's work, just like Le Corbusier, he would have approved...
...what the behaviors are to really draw people into your life, and then have a basis upon which to make an informed judgment. So the drunken hook-up thing...eh. Perhaps not the best arena for developing that skill. But on the other hand, being a hermit is not the solution either.4. FM: The common perception is that when females say they go to Harvard, they are written off, whereas men are considered more attractive. In your opinion, why is that?AB: As a man who went to Harvard, I can tell you it didn?...
...fixing a birthday dinner," "Jenny took the kids sledding") and uploads photos (her son in the school play). After 24 years, our friendship is now relegated to the online world, filtered through Facebook. Call it Facebook Recluse Syndrome - and Jenny is far from the site's only social hermit...