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...stability to the Middle East. In principle, such a policy is laudable: The U.S. often engages in diplomatic efforts with unfriendly nations, sometimes even in the midst of conflict (such as in the case of former President Reagan’s willingness to talk to Moscow during the Cold War). However, Obama’s proposal to do so with no preconditions is naiveté at its finest. In fact, even the Iranians themselves admit that negotiations provide more time for Iran to come closer to creating a nuclear weapon as they stonewall negotiations with the U.S. and other Western...
...years of existence of atomic weapons, only 10 nations have actually built them, eight of which were during the Cold War and one of which later gave up its weapons (South Africa). Clearly, the non-proliferation strategies employed to this date are working fairly well. The development of an Iranian nuclear weapon, then, could double the number of nuclear-armed nations in a small fraction of that time, representing a major setback for the prevention of the spread of nuclear weapons. This would mark a return to a Cold War-like era in which a danger of nuclear war...
...Lowboy” is William Heller, a 16-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who goes off his meds and goes on a manic journey through the New York City subway system. The contemporary subject-matter is a departure for Wray, whose last two novels have taken place in pre-war Austria and the antebellum South. He told New York Magazine that the more palatable setting pick “had something to do with wanting to survive as a writer. Sooner or later it would be nice if I could make my publisher some money.” It?...
Fair Britannia is at war! All behold, as the drama unfolds in what historians will surely come to call “The Battle of the British Underdogs.” Or maybe they’ll call it “The Great Sob-Story Shootout at Schadenfreude City.” Granted, no bullets will be fired in this battle, and no blood will be drawn. I write, of course, of the recent developments on the television program “Britain’s Got Talent,” our former colonizers?...
...That kind of jockeying is a bad strategy, officers note. Trying to start a bidding war is generally a losing proposition in part because every school's resources and aid calculations are different. Colleges will rarely match an offer outright. That doesn't mean applicants shouldn't bring up other schools' awards, however, because the comparison may turn up extra data that one school had not taken into consideration. "If the generous award is because the family provided additional information to the [other school's] financial-aid office that allowed a more appropriate need-based award to be made...