Word: isolationism
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If Brazill didn't at that instant grasp the grim future that awaits him, it probably won't take him long. Next month the judge will mete out a sentence that could mean a lifetime in prison. And if Brazill needs a clearer picture of what's in store for...
The solution to this crisis therefore will not be found through petty attempts at retribution, such as yesterday’s conservative-led House vote to suspend overdue UN payments. This type of unnecessary confrontation has been largely to blame for the present difficulties; other nations perceive the U.S. as...
All audiences should find something to enjoy in Shrek, a computer-animated film which, a la the musical Into the Woods and Rocky and Bullwinkle's "Fractured Fairytales," turns the fairytale world of the Brothers Grimm and Disney upside down. The film, based on the storybook by William Steig, revolves...
Existing apart from the center, wherever that may be, has often had an energizing effect. Japanese curiosity in the outside world, the willingness to learn and the anxiety not to be left behind explain to some degree why Japan has been the most prosperous, most technologically advanced Asian nation for...
Viewed in isolation, Peru had been one of the success stories of the war on drugs during the 1990s, when the cultivation of coca, the source of cocaine, was reduced by half with strong policing and incentive programs to wean peasant farmers onto alternative crops. But that didn't cut...