Word: standings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Obama administration is studded with people inclined to believe carrots like energy and food aid can work, in return for verifiable steps toward an eventual nuclear stand-down. There is, however, one enormous material fact on the ground that has changed since the North first agreed to stop developing nukes in 1994: it now has several nuclear weapons, made via its plutonium program in interim years, and recently admitted that it's close to having a bomb triggered by highly enriched uranium as well. (Indeed, North Korean refugee groups in Seoul have recently been circulating reports - impossible to verify...
...describe doing stand-up for the first time and it sounds like an absolutely horrible experience. How are you drawn to something that also at the same time makes you so terrified? I think you have to talk to Dostoevsky or Carl Jung or someone more qualified for that answer. I don't know. Maybe because it's a challenge? Maybe it's some kind of low level search for grace? Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that...
...which Mograbi’s politics inform his art has been a source of contention among critics. A notable scene in his 2005 film, “Avenge But One of My Two Eyes,” features Arab men forced to stand on rocks by Israeli soldiers. Many have observed parallels between this scene and the images from Abu Ghraib that dominated international media at the time the movie was released. According to Mograbi, however, there are no such parallels, and those who view his movies should refrain from making direct comparisons between movie scenes and other political events...
...despite the celebratory aspects of this giant party, its hard not to be reminded of the vast, Orwellian machinery of control underlying the Party's rule. The specter of robotic ranks of soldiers marching past stone-faced leaders on the reviewing stand is an example of how Beijing often reveals an image of China that is completely at odds with the vision of a modern, peaceful nation the government is normally at pains to portray to the rest of the world. Such discrepancies probably matter little to those planning the anniversary parade. They know there is only one audience...
...called boost stage.) Meanwhile, Obama's decision will surely raise alarms in the corridors of power in Ukraine, Georgia and other NATO-inclined countries in the former Soviet bloc, who saw the battle over the missile shield as a litmus test of Obama's willingness to stand up to Russia's efforts to re-establish its hegemony in its post-World War II sphere of influence...