Word: isolationism
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North Korea is run by a dynastic regime that has extinguished the human spirit so ruthlessly that Mao's Cultural Revolution, by contrast, looks like a dinner party. Yet the country's appalling record on missile and weapons proliferation, its illegal-drug sales and counterfeiting and its abysmal human-rights...
A Long Migration, the least clinically themed story in the book, is Chen's delicate, mosaiced account of trying to piece together the story of his grandfather's life - a tale of several marriages, migration and diaspora. In Contact Tracing, another piece that ratchets up the tension, Fitzgerald is dying...
Last week, however, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rescinded Posada's go-free card, reversing the El Paso judge's ruling. Now the anti-Castro militant, who has also been linked to 1997 bombings of tourist sites in Cuba that killed an Italian man (a charge he later...
This week's setback simply reflects how unrealistic that prediction was, given the imbalance in power between the two sides. While the desire to break out of international isolation in order to save his collapsing economy has brought Mugabe to the table, inside Zimbabwe, he and his security forces still...
Like athletes in all major sporting events, golfers at the Open undertake this challenge with the added pressure of intense scrutiny: spectators, TV cameras and journalists dissect every aspect of their game, and up-to-the-second scoreboards offer players the strange meta-drama of watching their own performance unfold...