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...Recent students, including Veronique Branquinho, Raf Simons, Bernhard Willhelm and the duo at A.F. Vandevorst, also set up shop in Antwerp; they travel the 400 km to Paris twice a year to show at the Prêt-à-Porter collections. This isolationist instinct doesn't end at choice of headquarters. The graduates from Flanders also shun mainstream publicity, rarely granting interviews and often refusing to be photographed. The reason? They say they want their work - the image of their designs - to speak for itself...
Only by engaging North Korea can we ever hope to improve the prospects for peace in the region and to make inroads into the isolationist nation. We would be foolish not to capitalize on this time when the South Korean president has expended so much energy to see such a peace achieved. This is not to say that the U.S. should roll over to one of the world's most erratic rogue nations; rather, it should proceed with caution on an agenda that will support Kim Dae Jung's responsible vision of incremental steps to long-lasting stability...
...principle of operating within both the letter and spirit of the rules aside, the pseudo-isolationist attitudes expressed by Ivy-skeptics is as bewildering as those espoused by Pat Buchanan. The Ivy-skeptics' underlying ethos, that student governments act as recluses, is bizarre. Some Ivy-skeptics argue that withdrawing from the Ivy Council would save much-needed money, which could then be used for cash-starved student groups. But casting aside one's natural allies would not be a thoughtful strategy for reducing expenditures...
...European leaders, the fear is that George Bush will act as if he's president of Texas: not exactly isolationist, but uncurious, prone to lecture, unilateralist. Even during the Clinton era they found Republicans in Congress hostile to the sorts of multilateral, institution-building initiatives that come naturally to close neighbors heavily invested in the long march of European union. Mainly because of Republican opposition, Washington owes back dues of some $1.65 billion to the U.N. and has shrunk its development aid to 0.11% of gdp, about one-third of the rich-country average, despite record U.S. budget surpluses...
...transatlantic solo flight put the shy Smith College graduate in the public eye. "The first couple of the skies," as they were known, flew record-breaking trips across Latin America and Asia. But the 1932 kidnapping and death of their baby Charlie ended the idyll. Moreover, the couple's isolationist statements before America entered World War II tainted them as Nazi sympathizers, tarnishing their legacy...