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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...along with several missile launches, Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in [China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Move, China | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...predecessor three years ago - Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in the [People's Republic of China's] eye." (See pictures of North Koreans going to the polls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Gropes for a Response to North Korea's Nukes | 5/28/2009 | See Source »

...asked by a stranger what she does, "I like to make people's dreams come true." The next morning she wakes up in the back seat of the stranger's car, he asleep next to her, and opens her mouth in a grimace of disdain, as if trying to spit out the memory of last night and all the other last nights. A 40-year-old alcoholic who keeps embarrassing herself out of gainful employment, the lead character of Erick Zonca's Julia would seem a figure worth only pity or derision. But because she's incarnated by uber-actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Tilda Swinton is the Queen of the Indies | 5/10/2009 | See Source »

...Spit and acquit n.-- Nickname for an Orange County, California, program in which people charged with minor crimes are released if they provide a DNA sample...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

USAGE: "Some judges and defense attorneys worry that the program, dubbed 'spit and acquit' by its critics, could ... undermine the privacy rights of defendants." --AP, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

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