Word: isolationism
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At just about midday on a busy street in Hanoi last week, a three-car convoy pulled up to the sidewalk that runs along Truc Bach Lake and disgorged a small group of Americans. Leading the pack was a tour guide with a head of white hair, a stiff gait...
Libyan leader Muammar Ghaddafi finally agreed last year to hand the men over, in a bid to break out of the international isolation and U.N. sanctions imposed on his country as a result of the case. "He held off for years out of fear that he would be personally implicated...
In 1795, after the terror had claimed the heads of his father and mother, Louis Charles--next in line for the French throne--finally earned his release from the Temple prison in Paris. He had suffered the dank filth, the coarse ministrations of a guardian cobbler and long periods of...
To scrap the Miranda ruling now would overturn decades of precedent and dozens of previous Supreme Court decisions. The court has thrown out numerous state convictions since 1966 on the premise that suspects' confessions are inadmissible if they are not first read their rights. If the Miranda warnings were not...
However, the "Survivor" and "Big Brother" casts are cut off from reality. They exist in a world apart from their friends and family. The TV execs are basically locking people up for our enjoyment. Isolation like this cannot be healthy, especially under the conditions of the contest. The "Big Brother...