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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tense standoff between U.S. ships and the Kang Nam 1 would hardly upset Pyongyang; the Burmese junta has proven to be wholly insensitive to criticism and protest from the outside world. Watchers of both isolated states see a joint circling of wagons in the face of a hostile international community. With many policy makers already tearing at their hair over North Korea's nuclear intransigence, it's a state of affairs that can only deepen global concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Burma May Be North Korea's Best Friend | 6/26/2009 | See Source »

...hostility that I've faced has come from women - almost all, in fact all, from radio call-in shows. Some women were instinctively upset that a man has dramatized his own plight when their plight is so much more awful. Overall, the majority of the responses from women has been hilarity. Which puzzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Lewis on Father's Day | 6/19/2009 | See Source »

...known to be a passionate soccer fan who closely follows the fortunes of Iran's national team. Indeed, at a press conference after he was declared the winner of last week's election, Ahmadinejad dismissed the protests in Iran's streets by comparing the demonstrators to soccer fans upset over a loss. "Some believed they would win, and then they got angry," he said. "It is like the passions after a football match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soccer Protest: Iran's Players Show Support for Mousavi | 6/17/2009 | See Source »

...main squares. Speaking to a sea of supporters waving green flags - in what appeared to be an appropriation of the color used by Mousavi - Ahmadinejad compared the elections to a football game and said those in the streets did not represent a majority of Iranians but were people upset at having lost the game, referring to them as "weeds and dirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tehran's Rallying Cry: 'We Are the People of Iran' | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...possible to get those election results fairly quickly because each polling booth could count its own votes in a matter of a few hours. As to the other charges, they chime in with the President, who said at a press conference yesterday that those who had lost were just upset because the elections did not turn out as expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tehran's Rallying Cry: 'We Are the People of Iran' | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

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