Word: sweets
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...nuclear weapons, no matter what the incentives. "It beggars the imagination to believe that the North Korean regime will give up what's been its policy for at least the last 25 years [the pursuit of nuclear weapons] thanks to the sound of the Chris Hill's sweet voice," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. But if Kim does indeed shut down his reactor next month, that will, undeniably, represent progress. And as one foreign diplomat put it, considering that North Korea conducted its first nuclear-weapons test...
...nuclear weapons, no matter what the incentives. "It beggars the imagination to believe that the North Korean regime will give up what's been its policy for at least the last 25 years [the pursuit of nuclear weapons] thanks to the sound of the Chris Hill's sweet voice," says Nicholas Eberstadt, a North Korea analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. But if Kim does indeed shut down his reactor next month, that will, undeniably, represent progress. And as one foreign diplomat put it, considering that North Korea conducted its first nuclear-weapons test...
...Becoming Jane, a Jane Austen biopic starring go-to good gal Anne Hathaway, due in August. "It colors your view of a character. When the audience goes to the cinema, they bring those expectations with them." Thankfully, Hathaway and others have arrived to keep summer safe for the sweet...
...Real estate may not offer double-digit returns anymore, but it does offer an atavistic promise of security, a nest egg embodied in Sheetrock that you can touch and dirt that can't be outsourced to Mumbai. Property fever is in our blood: this country made its fortune in sweet real estate deals--a Louisiana Purchase here, a few trinkets for Manhattan there--and these HGTV shows tap into something primal...
...real draw is the melodies. On Icky Thump, there are four really good ones. You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) stomps all over a passive lover's heart with a Led Zeppelin--quality riff and an impossibly effortless vocal, while the sweet, diffident A Martyr for My Love for You changes the pace and proves Jack White can sing ballads too. Along with Catch Hell Blues and Effect and Cause, they remind you that the White Stripes are at their best when they're at their simplest, with Jack on electric guitar...