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...that we have seen a pattern,” Subramanian said, “we must find out whether the effect is causal...
...North Korea, Obama announced that on Dec. 8 a U.S. diplomat will travel to North Korea to continue negotiations, but Obama said those discussions should focus on the nuclear issues and not "side items." He said he wanted to "break the pattern" of North Korea coming to the negotiating table followed by outward defiance of its own agreements. "The door is open to resolving these issues peacefully," Obama said...
...performance in this game continued a pattern she established straight from...
...pattern that “Cowboy Casanova” establishes becomes depressingly familiar as the album goes on. This is surely one of the least melodic albums ever released by a conventional candidate for pop superstardom. With the sole exception of “Quitter”—a light, playful track firmly in the traditions of Nashville—the entire record consists of overwrought, impeccably produced, tuneless and indeed lifeless numbers as utterly forgettable as the “coronation songs” that “American Idol” winners sing in each year?...
...Hasan may be the new terrorist template that fuses psychological damage with jihadist ideology. The most obvious and ominous evidence points to a now familiar pattern: alienated individuals who don't have to graduate from al-Qaeda training camps to embrace their mission and means. When an Army officer is reported to proudly call himself a Muslim first, an American second; when he appears at a public-health seminar with the PowerPoint presentation "Why the War on Terror Is a War on Islam"; when he applauds the killing of a U.S. soldier by a Muslim convert at an Arkansas recruitment...