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...nationals and is already a force in the global drug and arms trades. (Imagine if a shipment of Scud missiles was intercepted coming from Iraq, as a North Korean shipment was in the Indian Ocean last December. What are the chances the U.S. would allow that vessel to continue onward to Yemen?) Add to this North Korea's economic desperation?the country doesn't have the natural resources that Iraq can still exploit to somewhat mollify a collapsing standard of living?and it would seem that Pyongyang poses the more dangerous threat...
...will not, and we must not, rest," Bush said, "until every person of every race believes in the promise of America because they see it in their own eyes, with their own eyes, and they live it and feel it in their own lives." From the 2000 convention onward, this was a guiding social principle of compassionate conservatism...
Though “Ebonics” has had a contentious history in the popular media from the mid 1990’s onward, concepts like Black English Vernacular and African-American Vernacular English have been studied systematically by sociolinguists since the early 1970’s. Though connotations of Ebonics in popular culture are negative, in linguistics, those connotations are emphatically positive, citing these speech varieties’ internal logic and rich history...
...cake-batter-wrestling event in the far corner of the Quincy courtyard. Like Odysseus resisting the call of the Sirens, Blickstead valiantly disregards the vixenish squeals of delight and surprisingly alluring scent of cake batter, and presses ahead, leading the group, now 50 or 100 paces behind him, inexorably onward to Mather...
Annenberg also enjoyed close ties to U.S. presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower onward. In 1969, Richard Nixon named Annenberg ambassador to the United Kingdom. Ronald and Nancy Reagan used to frequent his California estate. In 1986, Annenberg was awarded the Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor...