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...study said that interviews “are prone to subconscious biases from extraneous factors unrelated to the candidate.” (These researchers know what they’re talking about since they hail from Toronto, which averages at 145 rainy days a year...
...says is mumbled nonsense and the only laugh lies in him being '80s icon Chevy Chase. But a gory running joke involving another prominent face from that decade - Back to the Future's Crispin Glover, playing a one-armed bellhop in the present and an intact but accident-prone bellhop in the past - might be the single funniest thing in the movie...
Hypothetically, how could some sort of military clash come about? It wouldn't first be open war. China and India are building up their interests in conflict-prone and unstable states on their borders like Nepal and Burma - important sources of natural resources. If something goes wrong in these countries - if the politics implode - you could see the emergence of proxy wars in Asia. Distrust between India and China will grow and so too security concerns in a number of arenas. It's an important scenario that strategic planners in both Beijing and Delhi are looking at. (See TIME...
...Many of the Tea Party movement's gripes are common complaints about government. But let's not sugarcoat what the people are at the core of this phenomenon: ultra-nationalist, right-wing Christian, militant, antigovernment, disproportionately Southern, overwhelmingly white, prone to conspiracy theories and slanderous toward a liberal African American over offenses they silently tolerated from a white conservative. Meet the 21st century Klan. Thomas Quinn Los Angeles...
...here is the central dilemma of Iranian policy: Iran's greens need time, but Washington does not seem to think it can afford to wait. While patience is underrated in the U.S. political culture, impatience carries a much greater risk when dealing with a country currently prone to escalation. The tragedy of yet another war in the Middle East is something America simply cannot afford. Waiting for something to change is hard for Americans. But on Iran, that is what they should...