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...yellow caution light has come from the Congressional Budget Office, the fiscal scorekeeper for everything proposed on Capitol Hill. In recent days, the CBO has issued preliminary estimates suggesting that both major bills in the Senate - including the one being worked on by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the one by the Finance Committee - are not only going to add significantly to the deficit, but also that they'll do so without delivering what lawmakers have promised in terms of bringing down health-care costs and covering the uninsured...
...views any forced inspections of its fleets to be an act of war, and an angry North Korea could fire on ships seeking to inspect one of its vessels, launching attacks from other ships in its navy, from shore batteries or from missiles. "While North Korea's most recent aggression has not yet led to violent outbreaks in the region, such clashes are a distinct possibility in the near future," warned a report issued on June 16 by the Center for a New American Security, a Washington think tank. "In fact, North Korea's well-documented history of intentionally inciting...
...Deng Xiaoping led China on the path to reform 30 years ago, one of the key declarations he made was that the country would be ruled by law. Since then, China has made dramatic headway in developing a legal system, but the application of law has been choppy. In recent years a small group of independent lawyers across the nation has been attempting to force the state to uphold human rights. The lawyers have been subject to arrest, violence and even, in the case of one prominent advocate, disappearance. But this month's apparent disbarment of the country...
...interests in the region has led to more government and academic analysis today than ever - but mostly from afar. Widely held views on Tehran's political factionalization have inspired tough U.S. policy toward hard-liners, a policy driven as much by a desire to encourage moderate forces. But recent developments have called into question some of the assumptions about the nation's leaders and their ability to control events...
...recent surprising developments reaffirm the humbling nature of Iran analysis. But U.S. experts who are routinely forced to rethink their conclusions are in good company this time. "If Khamenei gets it wrong and doesn't really understand how the Iranian people are likely to see this, then we have some excuse for not always getting it right," says Sick...