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Over a decade after the Soviet Union fell, the U.N. is still working within the framework best fit to ensure the same stagnation that during the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s ensured a cold war and world peace. Stuck in this warp zone, with the Security Council’s veto-bearing members unwilling to vote themselves out of power, the U.N. may well be a dead end for those who would reform decision-making to be pro-active instead of inert...
...enduring image as an enchanted Shangri-la, a place frozen in time. Yet it is the country's backwardness, so charming to backpackers, mountaineers and jet-setters alike, that lies at the heart of the deadly turmoil. Though Kathmandu has enjoyed steady modernization, in the rugged hinterlands the time warp that shrouds the Himalayan kingdom?according to the Nepalese calendar it is currently the year 2060?preserves a system of feudal landlords, bonded labor and a medieval level of destitution. The Asian Development Bank estimates that 42% of the 26 million population lives below the poverty line?and Nepal...
...anguished national debate about whether to go to war in the first place. Bush's advisers knew all along that his postwar poll numbers could not hold, but as it has happened, the effect has been to force the President--and the nation--into a kind of moral time warp: six months after Bush addressed the nation and argued for war and three months after he declared major combat operations ended, he was making the case all over again...
...most diplomats in the nation's history, Franklin understood that America's strength in world affairs would come from a mix that included idealism as well as realism. When woven together, as they would be in policies ranging from the Monroe Doctrine to the Marshall Plan, they were the warp and woof of a sturdy foreign policy. And when countries such as France felt that the soft suasion of idealism was lacking, as has recently been the case, it proved harder to attract them to a cause. "America's great historical moments," historian Bernard Bailyn has noted, "have occurred when...
...painted-on special effects leave something to be desired. “Gee, how could we see The Matrix after this?” asks Ahn sarcastically. Overall, though, they’re enthusiastic and willing Rocky participants, pelvic thrusting with the best of them during the Time Warp...