Word: isolationism
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For many of us, if there is a dark side of the moon here on earth, North Korea is it. On and off for the better part of 20 years, from postings in Tokyo, Moscow, Beijing and now Shanghai, I have been covering North Korea - to the extent that a...
The targets of this latest round of Serb bitterness are the mostly Western countries - around 20, so far - that have officially recognized Kosovo as a new state. The Serbian government itself, diplomats say, may have indirectly sanctioned the brazen attack by hooded protesters on the U.S. embassy and other Western...
As the Harvard men’s basketball team (8–18, 3–7 Ivy) found itself down by two points to a visiting Princeton squad with 17 seconds left in regulation last Friday night at Lavietes Pavilion, some wondered whether the tough breaks that had marked...
Khan is one of very few Guantanamo prisoners whose claim to U.S. residency has been legally established. He has close relatives in the Baltimore area who are American citizens; Khan's lawyers have appealed to members of Congress on his behalf, including Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, who sits on...
Even today, Asterix stories seem to chime with the country's discomfort with globalization as it rails at the hegemonic power of the day, be it Roman imperialism or Anglo-Saxon capitalism. Commentators refer to France's 'Asterix syndrome', a tendency to withdraw from the rest of the world, yet...