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...past. Largely isolated from the rest of the international community, North Korea depends on China’s extensive economic cooperation for any semblance of stability. China has a strong incentive for its close ties with North Korea; the collapse of the North Korean economy or state would pose a massive security risk to China because of the long border the two nations share. Consequently, China has been one of the biggest obstacles to an effective, coordinated deterrence regime. Even in this most recent case, the Security Council resolution had to be watered down because of opposition from China...
...December of 2001, U.S. agents arranged to have a German citizen flown to a Syrian jail called the Palestine Branch, renowned for its use of torture, and later offered to pass written questions to Syrian interrogators to pose to the prisoner, according to a secret German intelligence report shown to TIME on Wednesday. The report is described in the new book Ghost Plane: The True Story of the CIA Torture Program by British investigative journalist Stephen Grey. The complex arrangement was part of the CIA's sprawling practice of extraordinary renditions, the secret transfer of terror suspects to hidden prisons...
...care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde, his example hung in the air like the moon, out of reach but never out of sight. And the question he always seemed to pose for them was not what to make of what he was doing, although that could be puzzling enough, but what more to make...
...Band-Aids in our welcome gift bag made us feel tough, but a lot more drinking than working goes on at Crush Camp. We stopped picking grapes after about an hour and raked grapes from bins into a crusher only long enough to pose for pictures. It took all of 10 minutes for us to take turns punching down a cap of skins into a small batch of Malbec with our hands, during which three of my campmates somehow refrained from making an I Love Lucy joke...
...Year Williams plays a cable show comedian named Tom Dobbs - sort of a Jon Stewart on speed - spouting liberal-minded socio-political criticism. One of his fans proposes that he run for President, and before you know it he?s on the ballot in enough battleground states to pose a threat to the establishment candidates. He devastates them in a televised debate and wins the election...