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Even if talks start, there are enormous risks. Washington could miscalculate how much diplomatic pressure to apply to the North or run such a tough interdiction regime that Pyongyang responds with more provocations like the one along the DMZ last week. That in turn could prompt China to abandon its efforts to nudge the North into making concessions. Overhanging all this is the suspicion that in the end, North Korea is simply dead set on getting nukes, no matter what the cost. "We need nuclear weapons to survive if the U.S. continues to isolate and pressure us," North Korea...
...That may not be something the U.S. is ready to consider. Yet. But the burden of the Iraq mission may yet prompt a rethink. And Blair will certainly be back. For one thing, he still as a medal to collect...
...Cross on Sept. 13: "I have been at this place day by day without knowing why I am here, how long I am going to stay, and where I am going to go after this. I sit, eat, sleep and do nothing." The indefinite solitary confinement has prompted hunger strikes and 28 suicide attempts. The last time British intelligence agents flew in to question Abbasi, he stayed mum for over an hour - though they couldn't say whether he was stonewalling or mentally disturbed. A mental health facility opened in March and now houses about 20 captives judged...
...whose sexagenarian Master Builder lusts for a teenage girl, reports that, during a tour of some of the more prudish British towns, audience members walked out in protest. "It felt as shocking as it was in the 1890s. I rather enjoyed that!" Will the success of the Ibsen plays prompt the West End to put on more serious work? Duncan Weldon, producer of The Master Builder, is pessimistic. "We are seeing, if not the last hurrah of serious plays, at least the signs of a slowdown. Other forms of entertainment will take over and in 10 years there will...
...after 10 months, the OCR ruled that the Ad Board policy provides “a prompt and equitable resolution of their complaints” and thus is not discriminatory on the basis of gender...