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...comments. He compared Obama's diffidence to Ronald Reagan's forcefulness in proclaiming the Soviet Union an "evil empire" in the 1980s - but even the most pro-American Iranians were infuriated by George W. Bush's attempt to lash their country into an "axis of evil" with their mortal enemy Iraq and North Korea. The situations in Iran and the Soviet Union were nowhere near analogous. Iranians in the streets were looking for greater freedom, not the overthrow of the regime. The neocon effort to turn the Iranians into East European rebels against the Soviet Union was as crudely misleading...
...never thought that Kim Jong Il was human and thus mortal.' OH YEON-JONG, a North Korean defector, after American and South Korean officials confirmed that the ailing dictator had chosen his youngest son, Kim Jong Un, to succeed...
...Valley, extended their reach by taking control of Buner - a province 60 miles from Pakistan's capital, as every media outlet hastened to explain. Pentagon leaders warned that the militants had become an "existential threat" to the Pakistani state. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the situation as a "mortal danger" to global security and bluntly demanded that the Pakistani military - a recipient of more than $10 billion in U.S. aid over the past decade - do a better job of earning that support. "We're wondering why they don't just get out there and deal with these people," Clinton...
...they’d been taken to a tag sale and then brought back unsold. Maybe Andrew’s little brother still uses this room sometimes, but no one’s around at the moment. In a cardboard box they have Starfox, Sonic, Super Mario 2 and Mortal Kombat II. It takes a minute to find the right TV/video setting, but eventually it all works. I play a few rounds of Mortal Kombat against the computer, lose, and turn it off. I decide to go down to the kitchen and get a bowl of cereal.No one wakes...
...concludes, "how can we begin to consider the meaning of whatever is left of Francis, Joan, Ella, the Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, or anyone dead but not forgotten, unless we acknowledge, with sadness, with wonder, that they began as small and perfect as the rest of us? These bones - fragile, mortal, beautiful - are where belief begins. Faith, at least according to Saint Paul's definition, is trust in things unseen. What, then, to make of relics? The point of them is to be seen, meditated on, keened over. Are they signs of weak faith, or strong? After seeing so many...