Word: peninsulas
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...Mogadishu was once the center of East African trade, an Italianate city of universities and cafes on the Indian Ocean waterways that link Africa with the Arabian peninsula. Since the collapse of the last functioning government here in 1991, it has been better known as a crucible of bloody warlord anarchy, where 18 American soldiers lost their lives in 1993, and where journalists still visit at their peril. You don't move without an escort of gunmen, you don't stop anywhere for more than a few minutes, you keep your tinted windows closed and you drive to the limits...
Russia's stated objective in the six-party talks is to bring North Korea back to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. Although mindful of the need to keep talking to Pyongyang in search of "options of reaching a compromise solution to the nuclear problem on the Korean peninsula" - to quote the Russian delegation chief, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Alekseyev - Moscow has publicly chastised its unruly Cold War ally. Last October, the Russian Foreign Ministry referred to North Korean underground nuclear tests as a disregard "of the will of the world community, interested in non-nuclear status of the Korean peninsular...
...That’s Kevin Shee ’10, a self-proclaimed “Ballerino,” hailing from Sacramento, California. A former tap and jazz dancer, he began taking classes at age five and moved on to perform professionally with the Bay Area Peninsula Ballet Theatre when...
...world body because of Chinese pressure for more than three decades. But there is no civilized alternative to the principle of international cooperation in pursuit of the common good. The world's only hope for the ethical, nonviolent resolution of conflict - whether in the Taiwan Strait, on the Korean peninsula or anywhere else - lies in the collective cooperation of U.S.-led democracies. Give up that hope, and we are lost indeed. Ben Shao Taipei Economic and Cultural Office New York City It is time for western countries to find alternatives to the U.N. not only because it is incapable...
...world body because of Chinese pressure for more than three decades. But there is no civilized alternative to the principle of international cooperation in pursuit of the common good. The world's only hope for the ethical, nonviolent resolution of conflict--whether in the Taiwan Strait, on the Korean peninsula or anywhere else--lies in the collective cooperation of U.S.-led democracies. Give up that hope, and we are lost indeed...