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...country after another scrambling to get nukes. Take, for example, the nonnuclear countries in East Asia closest to North Korea: South Korea, Japan and Taiwan. All are wealthy, technologically sophisticated countries that could go nuclear in a heartbeat. (South Korea had a clandestine nuclear-arms program in the mid-1970s.) But all reside snugly under the so-called U.S. nuclear umbrella--any attack by Pyongyang would bring the full destructive force of the U.S. military in response. And last week all swore off any notion that North Korea's test would make them rethink their policy of eschewing nukes...
...wasn’t until the mid-19th century that Harvard began to move away from its theological foundation and towards a humanistic philosophy of education that emphasized reason and intellectual freedom. The modern research university Harvard is today is the culmination of this secularization. But with recent headlines such as “Harvard committee proposes compulsory religion course for undergraduates” showing up in major international news outlets, one might question whether the decision to include a “reason and faith” requirement in Harvard’s new general education report was circumspect...
...mid-1980s, the original founders began to sell their chain piecemeal to the different store managers they’d installed at their various locations...
...throughout the West Bank and Gaza, and recordings of Jihadi songs and chants selling briskly at West Bank bazaars. Westerners also face a growing risk of kidnapping, and the U.S. consulate in Jerusalem has warned that Americans traveling in the Palestinian territories are no longer safe. The consulate in mid-August issued kidnap warnings for Gaza and the West Bank after the abduction of two Fox News reporters. On Wednesday, kidnappers struck again: an American aid worker, Michael Philips, 24, from Louisiana was kidnapped from Nablus by a new gang calling itself Jaish al-Sunna (the "Sunni Army") which demanded...
...shot. Can one be a shot? It was one of [Alan Bennett’s] pieces from the mid-90s for British television...I played a park attendant with pedophilic tendencies. It was a really powerful piece...