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...tonic I offer here does not pretend to solve every problem, or even identify every problem—and maybe more questions are raised than answered—but hopefully it clears some congestion, and keeps the patient on life support until all of us are really ready to operate...
What if the players refused to go along with it? What if they stood up and said, “You can’t single us out and continue to crack down on us and then pretend like we’re the pride of the Ivy League on one fall day each year?” What if Saturday came, but the players didn?...
...North Korea will deliberately provoke a crisis through a military show of force," predicts Dong Yong Seung, a North Korea watcher at the Samsung Economic Research Institute. The six-party talks between North Korea, the U.S., China, South Korea, Japan and Russia will likely resume, allowing all sides to pretend that the crisis is not a crisis. But there is little optimism the talks will produce results...
...many governments, however?especially those in Asia?a second Bush term has its merits. He is a known quantity. His focus on the war on terror has forced nations like Pakistan and the Philippines to confront demons they have long tried to pretend didn't exist. Bush was, in effect, endorsed by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who has supported the war in Iraq and whose willingness to shoulder a greater security burden in Asia suits the U.S. fine. Leaders in the region saw a protectionist in John Kerry: they heard that grave quaver whenever he pronounced the word outsourcing...
...longer put our head in the sand, and pretend that they don’t exist,” he writes in an e-mail to The Crimson...