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...Michael Jackson of world leaders - to succeed with nuclear blackmail? Why reward the Iranians for their support of Hizballah? Fair points, all. But there is a problem: the current American policy of nonrecognition isn't working, and it may well be counterproductive. "What's the hardest job for a tin-pot dictator in the information age?" asks Joseph Nye, dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "Keeping his people isolated from the world. Why should we be making life easier for Fidel Castro or Kim Jong...
...last time. When the accounts were tallied at the end of the Gulf War, the U.S came as close to breaking even as any nation at war is likely to do. In the 1990s, James Baker, then the Secretary of State, flew hither and yon rattling a tin cup and looking for contributions to the cost of battle. Saudi Arabia ponied up $16.8 billion, Kuwait $16 billion. Japan, which 12 years ago thought it was about to be a superpower, gave $10.7 billion, while a grateful, newly unified Germany gave another $6.6 billion. All in all, the Pentagon eventually...
...Once I started initiating the attack, fortunately I was playing some of my best squash all year, so I was able to keep the ball nice and tight up front—tight to the wall, tight to the tin,” Broadbent said...
...porn to misspelled actioners so awful, a roomful of monkeys with a typewriter and a set of Transformer DVDs might have fared better. Some writers, however, clearly aspire to a higher standard. Their websites hold stories rich in characterization and dramatic in scope, truly breathing life into these walking tin cans...
...dollop of sour cream. But purists insist that the best way to eat beluga caviar is straight off a golden or ivory spoon, followed by a shot of vodka or a sip of ice-cold champagne. For those who can afford to shell out $450 for a 125-gram tin, these precious salted sturgeon eggs are a taste of the true Western high life?a chance to indulge like the Russian czars and czarinas, who feasted regularly on fine caviar...