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...conclusively that it has a nuclear bomb, despite widespread speculation that it would soon test such a device for the first time. Either move could unleash a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia, as first Japan then South Korea might follow the North into the nuclear weapons club. That prospect is enough to keep the White House focused on the region...
Rather than confront the spooky prospect of putting aside their partisanship for Halloween, several students turned to politics for inspiration...
...first minutes of Saturday’s game in the Bright Hockey Center, the prospect of another tie was not altogether unreasonable...
...mind recoils at the prospect of the civil war, chaos and hatred which could ensnarl Iraq if America should fail to secure a stable republic. To prevent a Taliban-era Afghanistan on the Euphrates and all the instability and terror it would bring, Americans must be willing to bear the necessary burdens in blood and dollars. But beyond merely pragmatic concerns, America has a moral obligation to see this project through to the end. Although we did not support Bush’s invasion of Iraq, our concerns stemmed primarily from our distrust of the Bush administration to plan properly...
...voters now are having to confront the prospect that this campaign, rare in its combination of passion and poison, may end neither quickly nor well. In the darkest vision, Nov. 2 will be a day of apocalypse, with battalions of volunteers, geeks, cops, feds and assorted party watchdogs guarding the polls; 20,000 lawyers riding into battle, brandishing suits challenging the results in half a dozen states; campaign war rooms spitting out charges of fraud and intimidation; and branches of government built to balance and cool one another instead starting to melt. The fact that the last presidential election...