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...Although the State Department and National Security Council are reportedly against making a sale that would further complicate Washington's most troubled relationship, the Times reports that a number of top Pentagon officials favor beefing up Taiwan's defenses. The military logic is plain to see: The current policy requires that U.S. forces be rapidly deployed to defend Taiwan from any threat, as occurred in 1996 when President Clinton ordered a U.S. Navy battle group into the Taiwan Strait after China had fired ballistic missiles toward the island. Although that deployment was enough to force Beijing to back away from...
...Despite their logic and no matter how many times they told me, I didnit acknowledge the truth of their advice until I was ready to listen. Although I knew in my head that the answer to their question was no, the butterfly in my stomach was never quite convincedonot at age 10, 15 or even 20. I still wasnit fully convinced when I came back to school second semester wearing only a baseball cap and no wig. My friends and acquaintances here have finally helped me answer my parentsi question with a resounding iNo.i I do wish that someone...
...trial; or, as TIME columnist Jack White speculates, it could be a calculated risk designed to fell the most vulnerable, and culpable, of the four officers. "It may be the prosecution feels the case appears to be strongest against Carroll," says White. And with that in mind, the logic continues, it doesn't make sense to waste prosecutorial ammunition on the three other cops, who may have amounted to mere accessories. Prosecutors know that treating the other defendants with the same vigor as that used against Carroll could serve to mute the case against their most promising possibility of conviction...
...Lord of the Flies, Richard himself loses his tenuous grip on reality, plunging into a surreal world that embodies what he so desperately sought to escape in the first place. While the cinematic details of the film are breathtaking,and the scenery positively beautiful, serious discontinuities and leaps of logic in the script leave the audience with more questions than answers by the time the final credits roll. Richard's eroding grip on reality is questionable; it is unclear what exactly causes him to go over the edge. (Was it the island paradise or his beautiful girlfriend that...
...around the world. He has defended Israel and the Jewish people. He has denounced fanaticism and intolerance. He has not always succeeded in changing the views of others, but he has always tried. Wiesel's thoughts reflect the sadness of a life spent fighting an adversary that by all logic should never have existed and yet continues to roam the earth undefeated. His words are moving and inspiring, hopeful...