Word: standoff
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Both sides of the standoff can learn from the creativity of Soap Lake. Faced with three difficult challenges, Soap Lake came up with an imaginative solution, one that not only bonded citizens from all parts of society, but will also, “after 14 million years, return lava to Soap Lake.” Yes, the designers are former hippies—one ponytail reaches mid-back. Such creativity seems impossible here in Cambridge, where the fifty-somethings on both sides cut their hair long ago—there’s nothing left to let down. Harvard briefly...
...unaware of the hostile tension of the Harvard/Cambridge standoff until I started a temporary dog-walking service over Winter Break. While pausing to allow various crazy animals to mark every stump and poll, I had time to read the multiple signs on every Riverside telephone poll announcing town meetings to denounce Harvard development in Cambridge. From the view on the street, Cambridge hates...
Edwards' loser love affair kicks off with Six O'Clock News, a nearly great song about a pregnant woman who watches as her lover is shot dead during a police standoff. Read the chorus--"I tried to come clean but I guess it's no use/Your face is all over the six o'clock news/They cleared the streets and then they closed the schools/I can't even get inside"--and you will pine for the good cheer of a Morrissey album. But Six O'Clock News opens with a wry guitar riff, and Edwards' upbeat, breathy vocal comes through surprisingly...
...time for diplomatic posturing may be rapidly drawing to a close, as the standoff enters a more dangerous phase. "Personally, I think North Korea has gone beyond merely playing games," says Hideshi Takesada, deputy director of Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies. "Gradually, people are beginning to realize that missiles might soon be flying over their heads." If that happens, all anyone can do is hope the starving wolf of North Korea has a bark worse than its bite...
...nuclear standoff in North Korea continues, the mixed messages emanating from Tokyo have become ever more confusing. Last week, Foreign Ministry assistant press secretary Jiro Okuyama outlined Japan's moves to solve the crisis. "We are trying to build up solidarity and cooperation in the international arena," said Okuyama. In fact, the spokesman declared, Japan's Foreign Minister was scheduled to meet South Korea's President and President-elect the next day to hash out the issue...