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President Obama must either immediately convince international leaders that a nuclear-armed Iran is a grave danger to international security and implement broader economic sanctions, or plan for military action. Or we can continue to stutter through weak narrow trade restrictions while providing excuses until Iran finally joins the nuclear club. Let’s hope Obama chooses one of the first two actions—our safety depends...
...tears up recalling her own high school choir experience. She bursts into song. Five times. And though she says Sue Sylvester "doesn't live too far from the surface," the Glee character she feels the most kinship with is Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz), a wallflower who fakes a stutter to mask her shyness and generally confines herself to the chorus. "She's kind of in the background ... but then she steps up to sing and you go, 'Oh, my God, what a voice,'" says Lynch. "I was definitely like that in high school. I would step out occasionally...
...against American imperialism. The treaty "does not allow the slightest grounds for the Iraq people's rule over their country and turns this country into a medieval colony for America," wrote Hossein Shariatmadari in the influential Iranian newspaper Kayhan. While the peace between Egypt and Israel has held, the stutter stop of the U.S.-brokered peace process has lasted decades; the "comprehensive peace" Carter, Sadat and Menachem Begin hoped for remains unrealized. (See pictures of 60 years of Israel...
...Akpan stutter-stepped on his run-up to throw off MacMath but struck his penalty weakly to the right. The rebound came back to Akpan off MacMath’s knee, but the ball took a high bounce, and Akpan was unable to get his foot over it, sending his attempt high into the air, and eventually, into the arms of MacMath...
...loser, or has his or her own secret difficulties, and where characters achieve temporary escape by building communities (the Cheerios, the football team, New Directions), or permanent escape through anti-social derangement (desperate Terri, lonely Sue) or at the least false personalities (Tina retreats behind a stutter, Sue adopts an aggressive mask as a bully). It’s a world where everyone is coping, and where performances are an escape. Yet with all the underlying sadness and frustration, the show achieves hilarity. The slapstick montage of the students getting used to their wheelchairs comes to mind, and this angsty...