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...regime. Why doesn't Beijing act? Because China has a prime interest in maintaining a friendly communist ally as a buffer between itself and U.S. forces in South Korea; as a roadblock to a dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea; and as a distraction keeping America tied down in the northern Pacific, while China maneuvers to regain Taiwan and extend its influence throughout the Pacific...
Other songs tread on more familiar territory for The Decemberists. “Shankill Butchers,” a macabre lullaby about a gang of savage Northern Irish killers, could be this album’s “Clementine.” Similarly reminiscent of earlier albums, the following track, “Summersong,” is a wonderfully breezy folk-pop story of waning summer love...
...sign that life is returning to normal following the war in northern Israel, the 22nd Annual Haifa Film Festival opened this past weekend to big crowds. When life returns to normal in Gaza, children will be able to attend school without fear. This is the sad state of affairs at the present moment in the Middle East...
...unrequited high school love, buys a bowling alley and opens a law practice within it. Will TV producers never stop recycling these stale formulas? Actually, there is one thing a little familiar about "Ed"; its yuppie "Green Acres" premise and eccentric humor are more than a little reminiscent of "Northern Exposure." But "Ed" has a respect for Stuckeyville's residents that the condescending urbanite's fantasy "Exposure" never did. Adorable and often hilarious, "Ed" is the TV equivalent of a good date movie. As an ironic plus, it's produced by Worldwide Pants, the production company of David Letterman...
...ways, that story line is the product of the strains within the party over homosexuality. It's a tension nearly as deep and tortured as those the Democrats grappled with over race a half-century ago, when they tried--unsuccessfully--to keep an uneasy coalition of Southern segregationists and Northern civil rights advocates from tearing their party apart. Even though many of the G.O.P.'s policies have been hostile to gay rights, its leaders have long followed a "Don't ask, don't tell" policy with what pretty much everyone in Washington knows is a sizable number of closeted Republicans...